Welcome to Weary and Wandering
I’m Max — a traveller, runner, writer-in-progress and lifelong wanderer, currently approaching 30 and still trying to figure out what I’m doing with myself.
I’ve always had a restless side. The sort that wants to see what’s around the next corner, take the longer route home, book the flight and work out the details afterwards.
Over the last few years, that restlessness has taken me quite a few places. I’ve travelled solo through more than 15 countries, explored cities and landscapes on foot, met people I’d never otherwise have crossed paths with and collected far more stories, photographs and questionable decisions than I ever expected.
And somehow, I’m still not finished.
Where Weary and Wandering began
Weary and Wandering actually predates most of this.
I started the blog back in 2017/18, when I was in my early twenties and had only just begun discovering what travelling on my own could mean. It started as a place to write, share photographs and document the adventures I was beginning to have.
Then life happened.
The blog went quiet, the world went through a rather significant interruption, and W&W spent several years sitting patiently on the internet waiting for me to come back to it.
I always knew I would.
Nearly a decade after first registering the domain, Weary and Wandering is still here.
And in 2026, it feels like the right time to start writing the next chapter.
So, what is this?
These days, W&W is my place to document the journey.
The countries I visit.
The cities I wander through.
The long walks.
The races.
The people I meet.
The things I learn.
The things I get completely wrong.
Some of it will be useful. Some of it will be thoughtful. Some of it will probably just be me rambling about something that happened three thousand miles from home.
That’s sort of the point.
I’m also trying to become a better writer along the way. I’ve never considered myself a natural writer, but I’ve always found that putting experiences into words makes me understand them differently.
So this website is partly a travel blog, partly an archive, and partly an ongoing experiment in getting better at telling the stories that come from actually being out there.
And what’s next?
Well…
I’m approaching 30.
I don’t have a five-year plan neatly mapped out. I’m not entirely sure where I’ll be living, what I’ll be doing, or where the next chapter will take me.
What I do know is that I’m about to take another big step into the unknown, with a gap year of travel ahead of me.
More countries.
More miles.
More running.
More walking.
More stories.
And hopefully, a lot more writing.
So that’s where I am.
Still weary. Still wandering. Still figuring it out.
And after all these years, perhaps that’s exactly what Weary and Wandering was supposed to be.