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Long Way Home Chronicles by Maria Vargas

Maria Vargas

The best things in life happen when we take the long way home. This publication is an invitation to take a detour, get lost, explore outside our comfort zone, slow down, and when possible- take the long way home.

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Change Is Like New Shoes

Photo by Maria Vargas

The house was an echo last night. The echo of midnight crickets and the reverberation of three years’ worth of memories. It all flooded back to me as I lay on a camping sleeping pad in my own empty house, staring at t...

a month ago
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Booked the Wrong Hostel in Florence. Turned Into A Great Mistake.

Photo by Maria Vargas. Florence, Italy 2023.

I stood on the platform below the dim yellow glow of a flickering lightbulb at a train station in Amsterdam. It was the 3am witching hour, the time that means early for some, late for others. Ar...

2 months ago
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Field Notes | No. 1

Journaling at a cafe in Istanbul, Türkiye. 2024. Photo by Maria Vargas.

Field Notes are what you jot down in the moment. In between the margins, off the side of your desk, on an airplane, or under a flashlight in a tent. They are raw, unfi...

3 months ago
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$2 Plastic Sandals vs. $150 Running Shoes

Sapa, Vietnam. Photo by Maria Vargas. 2026

She walks more than fifteen miles a day. Her feet are her transportation as much as they are her livelihood. In Sapa, all the women seemed to wear plastic sandals. It doesn’t matter if they are so...

4 months ago
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Travel is An Exchange

Sunrise in Sapa, Vietnam. Photo by Maria Vargas. 2026.

One of my readers emailed me about my recent trip to Vietnam with some questions. I thought I’d turn it into a Q+A for everyone. It’s a longer piece, but Vietnam earned it! Grab a coff...

4 months ago
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    The best things in life happen when we take the long way home. I’m a Colombian-American writer, photographer, traveler and creative who has an unquenchable thirst for life and adventures.

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