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Travels

Design is how I think during the day — traveling is how I switch off. This is a running trail of the places I've wandered, logged one trip at a time.

May 2026Spring thaw3 days

Kashmir

Three days chasing snowlines and cloud-wrapped valleys — pine forests, glacier-fed rivers, and villages that only really wake up once the morning mist burns off.

Morning mist lifting off the valley, tree line and rooftops just visible below the peaks.

A working village pasture in the shadow of the range — horses, cattle, and wood-shingle roofs everywhere.

Crossing point over a glacier-fed river, footbridge in the background.

A roadside stop at a waterfall along the route.

July 2024Summer8 days

Hunza & Skardu

Eight days through the Karakoram — glacial rivers the color of concrete, a swaying suspension bridge, cold desert flats outside Skardu, and lakes so still they double the mountains around them.

Paddle boats pulled up on a glacial lake, water gone impossibly blue.

A quiet lakeside stop with the Karakoram peaks lined up behind.

Life vest on, crossing a swaying suspension bridge over the glacial river.

Cold desert flats outside Skardu — jeeps, dust, and paragliders overhead.

A boat-ride photo op, painted peaks standing in for the real ones.

Another roadside backdrop — the mountains this time almost real enough.

March 2023Early springWeekend trip

Galiyat & PC Bhurban

A weekend in the Galiyat hills — pine forests, a 19th-century tunnel cut into the ridge, and manicured gardens at PC Bhurban just as the blossoms were opening.

The old stone tunnel on the ridge trail, dated 1891 above the archway.

A pause among the pines, valley haze fading into the hills.

Cloud rolling over the pine ridge — Galiyat fog rarely waits.

The manicured gardens at PC Bhurban, spring blossoms just opening.

The trail continues

Next stop — not logged yet.

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