I want to tell you something about Pinterest that most travel articles skip right over: the problem is not the platform. The problem is how most of us use it. We open Pinterest, type in “travel,” and immediately get flooded with the same forty images that have been circulating since 2018. Santorini. Bali rice terraces….
There is a version of digital nomad life that looks like this: a laptop on a rattan table, a green smoothie, and a paddy field view. Bali. Always Bali. And look, I get it. I have pinned those photos too. But here is what those photos do not show you: the traffic on the main…
I have a confession. For a long time, I had a Pinterest board called “Places That Don’t Feel Real.” It had about 400 pins in it. Moss-covered cliffs dropping into the Atlantic. A lone tent perched on a ridge above the clouds. A village so remote the only road to it turns to gravel, then…