Most travel content shows you a place. Elsewhere shows you what a place does to a person.
Each episode, Christopher Theodore arrives in a city with one question: what does this place know that we've forgotten? He spends seven days finding out — through the people who live there, the history embedded in the streets, the performances happening in small rooms, the dinners that go on too long.
The result is something between a letter and a film. Intimate, curious, occasionally profound, always honest about what it feels like to be a person moving through a world larger and stranger than the one most of us inhabit daily.
"The goal is simple: to make the viewer feel, for forty-five minutes, that they are living a different life. And to leave them changed enough that their own life feels larger when they return to it."
Twenty-six cities. One year. Released weekly. Available on YouTube and as a podcast for those who want only the conversation and the voice.
Each episode is self-contained — a complete world. But across the season, something accumulates. A philosophy of travel. A way of looking. An understanding of what it means to be alive in this particular moment of history, when the world is both more accessible and more mysterious than it has ever been.
Episode Structure
I
The Arrival
Christopher Theodore arrives. First impressions, unfiltered. The city as it presents itself before he knows it. What draws him here, what the air smells like, what history has left visible in the streets. The question this city will spend seven days answering.
II
The Encounter
The heart of the episode. A performance attended, a conversation that goes somewhere unexpected, a dinner that reveals something true. A flamenco dancer explaining duende. A filmmaker describing what this city taught him about beauty. A chef who has never left and never needed to. The encounter changes depending on what the city offers — and what it withholds.
III
The Reflection
Later. Quieter. Christopher Theodore alone or with one other person, processing what the city has given him. This is where the philosophy lives — the larger questions each episode carries about beauty, history, memory, and what it means to live well. The reflection that every traveler has on the last night before returning home.
