Rediscovering beauty and meaning in a chaotic world.

Arrivals & Departures began as a freak idea amid the COVID-19 lockdown in London. As an artist, author, combat veteran, and social worker, I wanted to make sense of a new, uncertain world.

From moving every 2-3 years as a military brat and into adulthood after serving in the US Army, my life has always been very much on-the-go. Today, years after a highly mobile childhood and military service, my itinerant and irreverent ways are undoubtedly ingrained.

Traveling has generated an everlasting curiosity about food, music, literature, history, art - all the components that give cultures value - and I intend to share what the journey thus far has meant.

Through these dispatches from around the world, I explore lessons learned, new discoveries, amazing food, life-altering events, and stories of real people.

-MB Dallocchio

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