Spiti: The Middleland, Part 1
−27°C, no water, ten days. The winter anniversary trip, in full.
A change of surroundings, for restoration. The air and water of a new place — taken as medicine.
Married & wandering across the Himalayas and beyond. Told slow, sassy, and completely unfiltered.
−27°C, no running water, ten days — the winter anniversary trip that started it all this season.
Long-form Part 1 is up — the cold that cracked our water bottles, the Gyu Monastery café that became the whole trip's emotional center, and everything that goes unsaid in a highlight reel. Short-form teasers are rolling out across Reels and Shorts through the series.
Watch the teasers →Long-form journals and short dispatches, organized the way we actually travel — slowly, and usually lost.
−27°C, no water, ten days. The winter anniversary trip, in full.
The one stop that quietly became the heart of the whole Spiti trip.
An earlier journal from the archive — coming soon in rewritten form.
Apple orchards, dying light, and the roads in between. Coming soon.
Next in the series — publishing soon.
Pulled from the archive of ~50 destinations. Reworked soon.
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−27°C, no water, 10 days
Teaser from the Spiti series
The series, in 60 seconds
hawaapaani started as a Hindi phrase before it was a brand — a change of surroundings, taken for restoration. That's still the whole thesis. We're not chasing an itinerary; we're chasing the version of ourselves that only shows up after the third day off-grid.
Married & Wandering is the series that follows us as a couple — the good arguments, the worse ones, and the trips that only worked because we stuck them out together. Roughly 50 destinations in, across the Indian Himalayas, Southeast Asia, Europe, and everywhere in between, and the voice hasn't changed: slow, sassy, and unfiltered.
Four questions. One honest answer — plus a merch pick to match.