Why I stopped trying to see everything
My first few trips were spreadsheets — every landmark, every recommended restaurant, packed into days with no room to breathe. It took getting hopelessly lost in a market with no plan to realize the trips I remember best are the ones I under-scheduled.
Now I pick one neighborhood a day, leave the mornings open, and let a wrong turn become the story I tell when I get home. This post walks through how I plan a "slow" itinerary now — fewer pins on the map, more time to actually notice where I am.