We’re Ana-Maria + Matt!

(Though if you’ve found your way here, you probably know us as Jakey + Landers!). 

Our relationship blossomed one summer on the South Coast of Massachusetts. We bonded over a shared love of photography and aimless road trips to the sea. We’re not the first to say that the coast has a way of making a home in your heart.

Matt is enthusiastic about design and transportation (whether by plane, train, or #cutiemachine). I am enthusiastic about slow food and stories (whether literary, historical, or chismis). Together, we tend to our tomato garden and our peculiar cat named Marshall. As our relationship continues to age, we continue to influence one another: Matt can make a mean fried rice, and I am beginning to identify automobiles by the sounds their engines make.

We love good food and wine, but not at any cost. We believe that living “the good life” ought to depend on others making a good living. We believe in tipping big and fighting to eliminate tipping; that food, agricultural, and hospitality workers have a right to organize and make demands. We love beautiful destinations and design, but feel uneasy when we’re in too homogeneous a place that does not ask itself why.

We believe in supporting small businesses and local stakeholders over profit-mongering and predatory corporations that ravage communities to make the rich richer still. We believe that businesses, as extensions of the people who run them, should contribute everything they can to social justice and the greater good. As much as we’re able, we try to account for the whole of things. We believe that something better exists beyond the competitive, capitalistic hustle.

We acknowledge the privilege that allows us to travel and dedicate ourselves to widening the circle however much we can. Our primary goal in publishing this journal is not to commodify the human instinct to experience and explore, but to share the stories of the farmers, restaurateurs, shopkeepers, entrepreneurs, innkeepers, lightkeepers, towns and places that have brought joy into our lives. To leave a trail of breadcrumbs for like-minded travelers.

Thank you for listening to our stories in the spirit in which we share them. Please join us, and hold us accountable to the ideals that drive us down each lovely coastal road.

In grace and gratitude xx