Harper Ellis watching sunset over the caldera in Santorini, Greece
Travel · Writing · Wagging tails

A travel blog about destinations worth keeping

I collect places the way other people collect postcards.

Hi, I am Harper Ellis, a thirty-something writer from Oregon who left the sensible life for trains, tide pools, and one very opinionated golden retriever named Finn.

This blog is my field notebook: honest stories from airports, hostels, mountain passes, and the quiet moments in between.

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Harper Ellis and golden retriever Finn playing on a sunset beach by the ocean

Meet Finn

My co-pilot, my alarm clock, and the reason I know every dog-friendly cafe from Lisbon to Lima.

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“The best trips are not the ones where everything goes right. They are the ones you can still tell at dinner and make strangers laugh.”