The person behind the stories
Hi, I'm
Sumit.
I travel. Mostly solo, mostly by bike or in a rented Baleno with suspiciously good speakers. I go to places that feel far away from whatever I was doing, and I write about what it actually felt like - not what it was supposed to feel like.
No affiliate links. No "best budget hotels" lists. No content strategy. Just the road, the people, the moments I'd have forgotten if I hadn't written them down.
"I didn't start travelling to find myself. I started because staying put felt like a waste of a perfectly good world."
About this blog
- -A "Top 10 Places in India" listicle
- -Sponsored content or affiliate marketing
- -A travel guide with hotel recommendations
- -Instagram-optimised highlight reels
- -Content designed to make you feel bad about where you are
- -Honest accounts of being somewhere completely new
- -The good, the weird, the uncomfortable, and the quiet
- -Stories written because they needed to be written down
- -Real costs, real detours, real people
- -The slow transformation that happens when you let a place change you
How it started
The longer version
Ever since I can remember, I’ve always wanted to travel, probably because we hardly ever had proper family trips during childhood. Whatever little travelling we did mostly revolved around family gatherings, weddings, or birthday celebrations - never the kind where the destination itself was the experience. I always dreamed of travelling with my own money instead of asking my parents for it. So the moment I started earning, I began exploring new places, and I was completely mesmerised by how travel can change you - how it makes you feel more alive, more aware, and slowly shapes you into a different version of yourself.
I started writing the stories down mostly to remember them - the kind of details that evaporate if you don't catch them in the first 48 hours. The way the ocean waves make you feel peaceful and put you in a meditative state. The weight of riding 15 hours with friends and nobody complaining because the view keeps paying you back.
Then friends started asking where I'd been and what it was like. Then strangers did. So I put the notes somewhere they could find them.
That's this. It's not a project or a brand. It's a record - imperfect, ongoing, mostly honest - of what it's been like to move through India with your eyes open.
A few things about me
No itinerary, ever
The best stops I've made were ones I hadn't planned. The temple on the cliff. The diversion that added three hours and zero regrets.
Chai over everything
Every chai stop is a conversation waiting to happen. I've learned more from roadside dhabas than from any guidebook.
Shoots on an iPhone
No DSLR, no drone. Just a phone, decent light, and the discipline to actually stop and look instead of just scrolling past.
Writes past midnight
The honest version of a story only seems to surface after midnight when the performance of the day is finally over.
Somewhere I've been
Let's talk.
If something here resonated, or you want to share a road or just say hi - I'm pretty easy to reach.