Blog
Product updates, notes on the craft, and the occasional longer piece on travel, memory, and time.
How to Track How Many Days You've Spent in Each Country
Day counting sounds simple until you try it: rolling windows, arrival and departure days, and rules that all disagree. A calm guide to the methods that actually work, and how to pick one.
Ninety Days in Any One Hundred Eighty
The Schengen rule is not an annual allowance you spend and reset. It is a window that slides with you. A note on what that feels like, and why leaving doesn’t clear the slate.
The Border Stopped Stamping
Since April 2026 the border stopped stamping passports. The one crude tool travelers used to eyeball their own days is gone. A note on keeping your own count when the border keeps its own.
The Quiet Anxiety of Counting Days
Living across borders comes with a background hum: how long have I been here? A note on turning that low-grade worry into clarity instead of paranoia.
The Difference Between a Trip and a Stay
A trip is something you take and come back from. A stay is somewhere you briefly live. Why I count stays, not trips, and why the word matters.
A Year You Can Hold
Some years don’t happen in one place. A note on why I made something to gather them, and what I won’t let it become.