Edition Four

Featuring the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mauritius, Shanghai in 2005, and a search for vanilla.

Reflections: On Taste

Taste has been a growing topic of recent in thinker’s circles. Taste is personal, subjective. Everyone has it, good or bad or just indifferent. It’s far more complex than simply ‘I like blue and I don’t like red…’. Some find that it is pretentious, but we have learned the lesson over the years that taste cannot be bought and does not correlate with a high price tag. Cultivating an expert level of taste does, however, take years of study and practice, with enough exposure to the world to discern greatness from so-so. And taste is ultimately a catalyst of hard-earned trust: you--the Traveller–must relate and appreciate a source’s taste level in order to truly align with it. To invest in it. To trust in it.... Continue Reading

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Travel Research: American South Road Trip - Part Two

In the second part of the journey, we move from the mountains of Western North Carolina along the Blue Ridge Parkway into Central Virginia’s horse & wine country. 🗝️

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Travel Research: American South Road Trip - Curated Map

Mapping New Orleans to Virginia. View the Map. 🗝️

On Location: Mauritius

A weekend escape to the far corner of the Indian Ocean. Continue Reading 🗝️

Stay & See: Beach Plum Farm

Organic produce, farm-to-table dinner parties, and quaint, modern cottages on the Jersey Shore. Read More. 🗝️

Intel & Resources:

In each publication, Syllogi will share various tips, resources, and other odd bits of helpful information we have happened across in our research.

Intel: Seat Guru is Passé

The easiest way to finding your best plane seat. Read more.

Time Travel: Shanghai, 2005

My first time in China, which is on the precipice of ultra-modernity. Listen here. 🗝️

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Musings

Watch: The Beach

For Dreaming of: Paradise (Lost) in Thailand. Read more.

Taste from Afar: Lobster in Vanilla Cream

For Dreaming of: The National Dish of the Comoros Islands. Read more.

Read: Vanilla - Travels in Search of the Ice Cream Orchid

For dreaming of: Madagascar, Tahiti, and Mexico. Read more.

Syllogi’s ‘Musings’ is a series helping you paint a picture of a destination while traveling from your living room. From relevant books and articles, inspiring movies and tv shows, to songs and even treats and dishes, our goal is to curate a sensory experience that will prepare you for an upcoming trip, reminiscence on adventures past, or simply to envision a place that exists in your bucket list fantasies.

Beauty: Inn of the Five Graces, Santa Fe, New Mexico

We enter our lovely room–perfectly contextual with dried chilies, ceramic lanterns, and a hand-carved wooden door–just steps from the New Mexican capital.

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