I traveled to New York City for the first time in 2018, at a strange and fascinating moment in-between eras. Times Square still carried traces of the 1990s, oversized billboards, aging neon, old McDonald’s signs, while the city stood on the edge of something new.

It was pre-hyper social media, before influencers fully shaped the way we travelled and experienced places, a quiet turning point just before everything accelerated and, eventually, before the world lockdown changed everything.