Robel Hailu

Photo journal

The Daily Seen

Travel, meals, and the occasional bag of beans. Short captions, real locations.

Two snifter glasses on a wooden table, both labeled '49th State Brewing' — one amber, one hazy gold — with a can and menu in soft focus behind.

Tasting flight, 49th State, Healy

Healy, Alaska

 Robel standing in front of the wooden Denali National Park and Preserve entrance sign with a carved caribou on a clear-sky day.

Six miles into Denali

Denali National Park, Alaska

 Several jagged sea stacks crowned with small spruce trees rising out of calm fjord water in heavy fog.

Sea stacks and glaciers, Kenai Fjords

Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska

 Robel standing in front of the Homer, Alaska 'Halibut Fishing Capital of the World' sign on a cloudy day.

Homer, halibut capital of the world

Homer, Alaska

 Robel walking a moving walkway in Chicago O'Hare's underground tunnel with a luggage trolley, the ceiling lit by changing neon colors.

Travel days

Anchorage and Talkeetna, Alaska

 Four small espresso cups on saucers lined up along a polished stainless-steel bar, with a barista in a white shirt placing the fourth, surrounded by bottles and glassware.

Four espressos, before noon

Rome, Italy