I’m Anthon Jackson, a writer and photographer born in Ogden, Utah. I’ve contributed as an author to more than 30 titles over the years, working for Rough Guides, Lonely Planet and other series. I’ve covered, among other places, Italy, Pakistan, India, Oman, Turkey, Jordan and Indonesia.

I can’t pinpoint much aside from luck for landing me in the worlds of travel, writing and photos. An American Embassy brat, my childhood moves would form something of an arch around the Indian Ocean: Australia, South Africa, Singapore, Ethiopia—no more than a few years in each. During university days back in Utah, the family home, I was pained to part with $80 for a point-and-shoot camera, bought the night prior to departurting for six months of Arabic studies in Cairo and Amman. You will want a camera, I’d been told. And you will need to land on a major, I’d been told not so long before that. I’d leaned toward becoming a student of the Middle East in part for the dark, empty space it encompassed at the top of that arch of pins around the Indian Ocean: until then, my brushes with the so-called Islamic World had come largely at its farthest fringes.

A year and a hundred-plus breathless posts later, I’d wound up with a full-fledged blog. Invited as a journalist to Tehran (by any real gauge, I was not), I was less ambivalent about buying a camera than a year before, shelling out somewhat more than $80 this time, again just hours before a long-haul flight headed east.

After several more years of shoestring wanderings (‘Wanderings’ was, justly, the name of the blog), returning as much to the mostly familiar as exploring the strange and new, I wound up with a permanent base—and eventually, a family of four—in quiet Aarhus, Denmark.

By reviving this blog and sharing my entries from the road, I hope to reclaim a sense of the wonder that’s often lost in the the daily struggle but never impossible to find.

Get in touch: janthonjackson[at]gmail.com