This could have been just another travel blog—filled with tips, recommendations, and neatly packaged itineraries. A catalogue of places reduced to what should or shouldn’t be missed; or a monograph attempting to explain the historical relevance of one place or another… or simply a way to walk you through my trips.
But that’s not who I am, so I chose another way.
With thousands of blogs flooding the web—and powerful tools like Google and ChatGPT— I’ll save that kind of content for The California Blog. There, I write about the Californias less as a tourist and more as someone shaped by the land.
Short Travel Stories moves differently. Places are not simply described—they are reimagined. Here, you may encounter characters who may or may not be real; faces that might reappear in another place, or vanish without a trace.
Some stories follow a real day in my life. Others drift into fiction. There is, however, a part of me in every one of them.
The places I’ve visited serve as a backdrop—shaped by monuments that have witnessed moments when history changed the course of a place or its people, and by the echoes of lives long forgotten.
Photographs appear along the way, offering glimpses of where each story unfolds—traces of something that refuses to disappear entirely.
This might get a little too gay for you. Consider yourselves warned.
Either way, I hope you enjoy the ride!
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Vlkolínec, Slovakia
Located in the Carpathians of Central Slovakia.
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Mesa del Carmen, Gran Mural in the northern state
The California Peninsula is divided in two states, the one in the north and the one in the south. Rock art has been mostly associated with the southern state, mainly because it host most of the sites with monumental rock paintings widely known as Gran Mural. But the northern state has some sites with Gran
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Santa Gertrudis, La Magna
The oldest mission of the state of Baja California.