Category Archives: Stories

I Miss My Name

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I miss my name. It was lost on my journey to New York. Maybe it happened as I stepped onto the plane in Estonia, or during the lengthy layover in Heathrow. I am not sure. By the time I had reached the immigration booth in JFK, it was hopelessly gone. Getting my name back seemed […]

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December 19

The Wolf

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That Estonian Girl strikes again with a new publication in Unmapped Magazine. This time she travels the backwoods of Estonia to track The Wolf. Find her new story here at UnMapped.   Want to hear the same wolf howl for yourself? Luckily that Estonian Girl was carrying an audio recorder and caught the sound of […]

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December 04

Changing Times, Changing Tribes

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Changing Times, Changing Tribes Kaire (That Estonian Girl) published an exciting romp of an adventure through the backwoods of West Papua with the new online magazine Unmapped. Check it out!! And, if you want to read what childhood inspirations led That Estonian Girl to that remote part of the world, read her story, Dreams of […]

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September 07

Get Hiking in Estonia

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Love to hike? Then you’ll love this. Hate to hike? You still may love this. Why not hike in a country with untouched nature and the cleanest air in the world? Fifty-percent of Estonia is covered with forest and marshlands, making it one of the most forest-rich countries in the world. Forty-percent of that belongs to […]

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September 03

Sixteen Years Later: Going Back to Tallinn

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I shoved my face into my scarf and pulled open the door to the dark hallway. It reeked of alcohol, garlic and cat piss. I reached for the handrail and walked up the concrete stairs to the first floor studio apartment. After a few tries the key slid into the keyhole. An easy click, a […]

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July 21

The Story Behind the Photo – Tibetan Tea

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There are hundreds, if not thousands of photos from the trips we take. Some of them are pretty good and worth sharing, and they get posted to the blog, alongside an article, or on FaceBook. But some of the photos have deeper stories that are not revealed in the photo alone. This series, The Story […]

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July 15

Ten Reasons Oman Rocks

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Oman sits at an ancient crossroads with cosmopolitan Dubai to its West, an unstable Yemen to its South, and India and Iran across its waters to the East and North. Although Oman shares history and culture with its neighbors, it is an altogether different place that goes relatively unnoticed by the tourist crowd. Here are […]

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January 14

Dreams of Cannibals and Volcanoes

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I held a folded tissue paper in my left hand and a fountain pen in my right. A pile of second grade school books, with lined up edges, sat on the corner of the desk next to perfectly sharpened pencils. In front of me was an open notebook with clear and exact handwriting. I wiped […]

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December 04

Potato Stuffed Squid

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I was starving. The stalls were busy with women in headscarfs and men in T-shirts selling greasy fried noodles, fatty barbecue chicken, and stinking fish. Gray clouds of steam and smoke hung in the hot evening air of Brunei’s Pasar Gadong Malam night market. It smelled of burnt oil and scorched meat. I spat out […]

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December 01

Talking, Talking, Talking

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Cafe Make in Dubai Marina was filled with young professionals, eyes locked on their computers. A tall, thin woman in her 30s, wearing gray starched pinstriped pants and a vest to match, stepped into the room on 5-inch black strappy shoes. In her steps followed a woman in Louis Vuitton ballet slippers, a shiny gold […]

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