It’s not the waiting. It’s the not knowing.

Sometimes I sit here and worry about how slowly everything is moving.

Jan 13 • Faline Lin

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The Descent

ABC Episode 7: After Annapurna, before everything else

Jan 6 • Faline Lin

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December 2025

ABC. We Actually Made It.

ABC Episode 6: The fog hid the peaks. But the arrival still counted.

Dec 30, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Five More Minutes

ABC Episode 5: Nine hours up, one misleading ETA, and the room we named Greyhound Bus.

Dec 23, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Everything Gets More Basic From Here

ABC Episode 4: Cold showers, group digestion, and learning not to look too closely

Dec 16, 2025 • Faline Lin

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We Paid to Suffer at 4 A.M.

ABC Episode 3: Headlamps, hundreds of stairs, and the view that made us forget we were dying inside.

Dec 3, 2025 • Faline Lin

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November 2025

I Didn’t Plan to Come Back, But Here I Am

A week in Fuji filled with textile, strangers, and surprising clarity.

Nov 26, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Welcome to the Himalayas. Please Hold On Tight.

ABC Episode 2: A nervous flight, bumpy jeep ride, and the moment the trek really began.

Nov 18, 2025 • Faline Lin

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I Thought “Base Camp” Meant Easy. It Doesn't.

ABC Episode 1: Kathmandu Was Just the Warm-Up

Nov 11, 2025 • Faline Lin

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How Melon Saved a Paris Heatwave

Six flights. Zero air-con. One oolong that kept us alive.

Nov 4, 2025 • Faline Lin

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October 2025

We thought moving into a ruin was a good idea.

A small piece of life in the ruin. Messy, real, and very different from what we were used to.

Oct 28, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Cycling, Tea, and a Few Too Many Hills

Over the last few months, I’ve been traveling deep into Taiwan’s mountain ranges, visiting tea farmers and roasters who are doing things differently: no…

Oct 22, 2025 • Faline Lin

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