About us
We are Kecheng and Shania. Since 2017, we’ve been making our way around the world slowly — a few weeks here, a country there, with one backpack each and rarely much of a plan. The Wundering Lab is where we keep the things worth remembering: the cool stories, the unexpected discoveries, the notes we scribble on the way home, and the things we wish someone had told us before we left.
Kecheng & Shania
9
years since 2017
1
country
1
story
2
cameras, one each
The two of us
Kecheng
Writes the practical bits
Plans the route, keeps the spreadsheet, and is the reason we always have a paper timetable in the bag. Writes the parts of a story you'd screenshot before a trip.
Shania
Takes most of the photographs
Shoots one camera, one lens, and refuses to crop. Writes the parts of a story you'd read after — the notes on the way home about what a place was actually like.
How we travel
01
A few weeks at a time, one region, not a country. We would rather know three towns than tick off ten.
02
Trains are where the notes get written. Also where most of the photographs of the other person asleep come from.
03
The only rule we never break. It keeps the bag light and it keeps us looking at things instead of screens.
04
Nothing goes up from the road. A story is written once the trip has settled, so it says what mattered, not what happened.
What you'll find here
Stories
Every trip is one story, split at each place we slept, with the route drawn alongside.
Read the stories →Resources
Every stay, train and piece of kit from the stories, plus the method we use to choose them.
Open the resources →Gear shelf
The short list of things that survived eleven trips. Affiliate links, marked, same price for you.
See the shelf →Sunday dispatch
The next stop, before we write it up properly. No sponsored fluff, unsubscribe in one click.
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Questions about a route, a correction, or just a hello — we answer everything, slowly, in the order it arrives.
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