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About the Peregrine Journal
A home for your stories
Peregrine: foreign, pilgrim, wanderer
Peregrine falcon: A bird who often borrows nests built by other bird types to call home. This is found on every continent except Antartica.
Long-term moves to a different country often start with a honeymoon phase. Everything is new, adventurous, and cooler than you left behind.
If you stay past the honeymoon phase, you get a good dose of reality — you know just enough language to get yourself in trouble, and you have to face the music (or in this case, mounds of paperwork, residency details, and paying rent.)
But if you don’t give up, your roots can grow deep and find the good soil. That is the place you can finally call home.
The Peregrine Journal is a place to share what you’ve learned along the journey as you’ve built your home in a foreign land. The good times, the challenges, and the blooper reel.
While there are several good travel blogs on Medium for short-term trips and vacations, this pub focuses on stories of expats/immigrants/transplants who have taken a move for the long haul.
Have you jumped out of the bubble of your own culture to live as the natives in a foreign-to-you land for some extended period?
We want to hear your story!
