Travel Short Story: Capturing the Soul of a Journey
Travel is often measured in miles, monuments, and maps. We count the countries we have visited and curate galleries of our most photogenic meals. Yet, as any seasoned voyager will tell you, the true essence of travel does not live in the grand itinerary; it lives in the small, fleeting moments that defy photography. These moments find their home in the Travel Short Story.

Unlike a guidebook or a listicle, a travel short story focuses on the “micro” rather than the “macro.” It is the narrative of a single afternoon, a specific conversation with a stranger, or the way the light hit a crumbling wall in a village you can’t quite find on a map. For readers and writers alike, these stories are the most authentic way to experience the world through another’s eyes.
Why We Tell Stories of the Road
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When I was a little woman rising up in Cleveland, I thought all bodies of water seemed like Lake Erie; brown and muddy. The brochures we saw for locations like Hawaii and the Caribbean should have been pretend … blue-green water? Really? No means. Although I had been to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, those bodies of water definitely didn’t resemble the coloured pictures in magazines or travel catalogs. So, it took years … years … to convince me that these tropical paradise waters really did exist.