Everything about autistic nomad life and slow travel.
This clothes packing list is always changing! I’ll update the list as I make additions and subtractions. Some buttons don’t have links because I cannot find equivalents on US sites. Like to read the justifications for these clothes? See the original article. Backpacks Outerwear Bottoms, Tops, and Dresses You can also find great merino options…
Clothes are the most extensive and essential packing category for nomads. They’re also the sneakiest: you buy one t-shirt here, a pair of socks there, and soon your bag is bursting at the seams. I’ll discuss what’s in my bag and the reasons behind it in this and subsequent articles. I’ll also explain why I…
A full-time autistic traveler’s experiment. “I usually notice car number plates or similar strings of information.” — Question from the Autism Spectrum Quotient Test This is the question that made me doubt whether I was autistic. Math was a joy until sixth grade, and I’d certainly never been that interested in numbers (or cars, for that matter). …
Why minimalism is so attractive. When I left the United States in November 2019, I fully expected to return six months later. After I’d left my stressful job, I planned a sabbatical in the United Kingdom, Cyprus, and the Azores. I offset my costs by house sitting part of the time in more expensive places…
Since November 2019, I’ve traveled over 4700 miles via rail across the United Kingdom, from bonny Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. For someone from Seattle, that mileage seems relatively low. But if you’ve ever traveled in the United Kingdom, you know how far that is. That’s over 30 mostly long-distance journeys, not including buses…
Let’s get specific. I didn’t want to go. I really, really couldn’t go to another organizing meeting. The lights, the confusing signals, the endless masking, my alexithymia, the awkward small talk, the hours upon hours . . . I could already feel myself going into a shutdown, like a song fading out into silence. But it wasn’t just…
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