A lot of travel writers don’t really “quit” travel — they

A lot of travel writers don’t really “quit” travel — they quietly stop turning the experience into sentences. Somewhere between airport transfers, freelance deadlines, and trying to photograph everything properly, the notebook stays zipped up for one more trip, then another. I’ve met people with incredible stories from overnight ferries and dusty bus stations who haven’t written a word in years because the industry trained them to publish constantly instead of noticing carefully.