Welcome to our brand new blog. You’ll notice we underwent a facelift. We also got a new name: Onward sums up who we are and what we do. Spencer Millsap and I—that’s us at the top of the page!—are curious about the world. We’re reporters who like to keep moving. With the generous support of the editors of National Geographic, Onward is a project to explore the world and tell its untold stories. Sometimes we’ll be out on assignment. Sometimes we’ll be reporting from National Geographic HQ. All of our dispatches will live here.

Speaking of which, in a few days we’re planning to hit the road. We’re taking our cameras and notebooks to a few different countries to spotlight some