Despite all my many travels, the view from the plane as I decend towards landing still feels sacred. There’s a reverence in setting foot on the ground, knowing I’ll soon be sucked into my well laid out plan – one of many possible perspectives and experiences that will shape my understanding of place. First, Java; […]

In the mountains of Sulawesi, Indonesia, the land of the living and the dead fold into each other like origami. I visited the home of the dead one day. Signified by a white flag outside, my guide and I stopped and asked if we could meet with their loved one. The deceased’s grandchildren casually accepted […]

Please form an orderly line… Doors are opening for a new Asia planner at Trufflepig. See the page on Work At Trufflepig for details of our employment practises, and here for the unlikely backstories of our current team. You might also want to read about our Hoofprint Project, or look under the hood for a […]

I have a list of three things which, perhaps due to a repressive part of my psyche or some masochistic Protestant lean, I have denied myself until I felt I could no longer continue without them; reading the entire Faulkner cannon, going on a surf/bike road trip through California, and learning how to make my […]

There are not too many times in our lives we can use the hashtag #yachtinspections without irony. This happened to be one of those times.  During my extended stay in Bali, the stars aligned and we heard that many of the beautiful live aboard yachts that we have been eyeing were all going to be […]

The first time I saw this pool I was moved to tiers. Okay, lame dad joke. What are you going to do, throw me in the pool? Please do (just make sure it’s this one). Where: Amankila, Bali, Indonesia Why: Trickling down the steep green hillside, everything about this resort is delicious and dramatic. Raised […]