Autumn Phillips

Charleston

Managing Editor of The Post and Courier and https://t.co/4b83Fbdfyr @postandcourier. APME board member. MFA graduate at #GoddardCollege.

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Articles

Welcome to Algeria: Tea in the capital city and bread baked in the Saharan desert

1 month ago | postandcourier.com | Autumn Phillips

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition of hospitality is so beautiful it breaks your heart. But I’ve never experienced anything like Algeria. We stood on the side of the road looking out on the hills and bridges of Constantine when two women drove by. The driver rolled down her window, honked and yelled, “Welcome!”If you goInterested in traveling with The Post and Courier?
Sri Lanka is having its wellness moment. Travel there for Ayurvedic medicine, 8th 'wonder of the world.'

2 months ago | postandcourier.com | Autumn Phillips

The secret to learning something is to give yourself over to it. I went to Sri Lanka to learn about Ayurvedic medicine. I entered with a true beginner’s mind, learning first how to spell the word. Most of the people who come to Sri Lanka to immerse themselves in Ayurveda are suffering from life itself. Stress and burnout.
When you have time: Take this $30, 4-day train across Zambia and Tanzania

Jan 5, 2025 | medium.com | Autumn Phillips

I had the best sleep of my life on the Tazara train from Zambia to Tanzania. There’s something utero about the experience. The train rocked from side to side. It repeated itself with a sound like a three legged horse — CLOP, clop, clop, CLOP, clop, clop. It was hot like a womb — the metal car with no insulation. We pulled down the window and left it open the entire journey. The glass was milky from decades of calcification, from sweaty condensation, from rain.
I snorkeled for the first time in the Galapagos. It made me cry.

Dec 7, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Autumn Phillips

I started to tear up when I saw a starfish. I told myself, don’t cry inside your mask, but that feeling of awe and overwhelm isn’t something you can fight. It isn’t something you should fight. I was surprised to feel it in response to something so small, the movement of a starfish on the sea floor, 600 miles from mainland Ecuador in the waters of the Galapagos. Until this week, I had never been snorkeling. I always thought I would be afraid.
‘The boy who harnessed the wind’: What is he doing now?

Nov 30, 2024 | medium.com | Autumn Phillips

Autumn Phillips / OttomanEarl Travel·Follow7 min read·--As soon as I heard we were going to meet William Kamkwamba , known to the world as , I wondered about his wife, the boy who harnessed the wind . Olivia Scott KamkwambaI knew a few things. She’s from the United States, grew up in Charlotte but her family is from Florence and Sumter, South Carolina. They met at Dartmouth. She has a Ph.D.I wondered what she would be like and what her life would be like, living in Kasungu, Malawi.
The best lodge in Kenya may not be for everyone

Nov 30, 2024 | medium.com | Autumn Phillips

Autumn Phillips / OttomanEarl Travel·Follow13 min read·--Where does this story begin? He’s the kind of man every man wants to be. Everyone wants to be. Larger than life. Living in Kenya and overseeing security for the Big Life Foundation , an anti-poaching operation protecting elephants and lions by employing the warriors who would kill them to protect their cattle. By compensating Maasai cattlemen for cows that are killed.
Arrive early, stay longer

Nov 30, 2024 | medium.com | Autumn Phillips

Autumn Phillips / OttomanEarl Travel·Follow4 min read·--The secret to being alone in a national parkThe thing that struck me about the elephants was the way they made no sound. Hulking creators, a whole cargo container’s worth of bones and muscle, floated across the savanna. I strained to hear them and it let me see them.
What you pack is what you want

Nov 30, 2024 | medium.com | Autumn Phillips

Autumn Phillips / OttomanEarl Travel·Follow4 min read·--Part of the fun of traveling is packing for it. It’s the moment you tell yourself what you want to get out of the trip, but what you choose to bring and what you imagine you’ll need. On Tuesday, I left Charleston on a seven-week trip to East Africa and in the weeks leading up to it, the floor of the guest room acted as a blank canvas.
Traveling to the World Nomad Games in Kazakhstan to see goat carcass games, Gates of Hell

Nov 2, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Autumn Phillips

Astana, Kazakhstan, is a city of the vast, wide-open steppe, born from the imagination of people who have no limitations of space. Buildings are thrown across the land like giant dice, ignoring convention of shape and scale. Walls of blue glass to reflect the sky, built for a people who look up at night and see the entire Milky Way. The roads are wide and straight, eight and 10 lanes in some places.
Putting into words the wordless wonder of 9 days rafting in the Grand Canyon

Aug 16, 2024 | postandcourier.com | Autumn Phillips

Lava Falls is one of the most famous rapids in the world. It’s one of the only things I knew about before descending into the Grand Canyon, and I didn’t know much. Something about a cheese grater rock, which didn’t sound pleasant. It hung out there in the future, toward the end of our nine-day rafting trip. It hummed in the background with a mix of anticipation and fear. By the time we reached it, we hadn’t seen the horizon in almost a week. The mind can adjust to anything, even to beauty.