When I went to the US embassy a couple weeks ago to renew my passport, I noticed something odd on top of a nearby hill. It looked like a handful of giant blocks stacked on top of each other. I did some research when I got home and it turned out to be a massive art project called The Chronicle of Georgia (or The History of Georgia). […]
San Miguel de Allende is a town in the middle of Mexico, about 4 hours north of Mexico City by bus. It’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is known for its beautiful colonial architecture. I stayed there for the month of November in 2012 and had a great time. It’s probably the most beautiful small town I’ve ever seen. […]
In this episode of Tristan’s Adventures, I talk theology with Georgian orthodox monks on top of a mountain, straddle the Georgia-Azerbaijan border, nearly step on a poisonous viper, and marvel at thousand-year-old frescos. […]
There is a luxury hotel here in Tbilisi that’s about a five-minute walk from my apartment. It’s super swanky, and staying there will run you several hundred dollars a night. For more than a decade in the 90s and into the 2000s, though, it was literally a refugee camp. […]
I’ve spent about two weeks in the US in the last 9 months, and it will likely be another six months or a year before I go back. Here’s what I miss. […]
This is the stuff that I’ve been living and traveling with for the past 9 months. I’m constantly trying to get rid of stuff, so this list is always evolving. […]
Here are my thoughts after having been in the Republic of Georgia for a little over a week now. […]
One of the best things about my life for the past couple years is that I’m seeing and doing things that I’ve wanted to see or do for a decade or more. These aren’t bucket list items per se (because I don’t have a bucket list), but they are places that I’ve thought would be awesome to see some day. Tulum is one of those places. […]
En route to Tbilisi from Houston, I had a nine-hour layover in Munich. I decided to get out of the airport and see as much as I could. […]