Trip Journal

Twelve travel journals worth reading, each with a note on why I read it.

The list

Ridgeline

Walking Japan; weekly since 2019, plus pop-up newsletters per walk

Out of Eden Walk

13 years on foot, Ethiopia to Alaska so far; 500+ dispatches

Crazyguyonabike

16,000+ bicycle touring journals by ordinary people, live daily

CycleBlaze

Bicycle touring journals; refuge for writers who left Crazyguyonabike

Couchfish

Southeast Asia, long-form; currently serialising Bali to Leeds overland

The Road Chose Me

Overlanding; Alaska to Argentina, then 54,000 miles around Africa

The Vagabond's Way

Weekly reflections on the art of travel, from the author of Vagabonding

Personal Landscapes

Place, identity, memoir; interviews with Theroux, Winchester, Murphy

Off Assignment

Nonprofit literary mag for the stories that didn't fit the assignment

Alastair Humphreys

Round-the-world by bike; now microadventures and a year inside one local map