I went grave hunting today. Not in the style of Dickens’ minor character Jerry Cruncher, to be clear. My mission was to find the graves of a 19th century Georgian couple whose marriage proved unsuccessful in the end. And so they were of course not buried together. Like most 19th century women, Keke Jughashvili seems to have been the more …

The Atlantic’s Annie Lowrey wrote a column arguing that too many people want to travel. So I submitted a futile letter destined for the trash bin that would have never seen a single reader were it not for my own platform. Since I’ve written this, I’ve become aware of (the Republic of) Georgia’s pro-tourism movement called #SpendYourSummerInGeorgia. It’s a reaction …

In our age of social media envy farms, the lesser traveled are mired in the fear of missing out. The swelling chimera of edits and exaggerations make the untraveled regret their planted ways. I recall an amusing if detached list of 30 places to see before turning 30, perhaps written by someone neither with student loans nor experience with American …