— Welcome to the Publication —
About Journey Junket
Journey Junket is a publication about the small, vanishing details of how we used to travel. The airline meal carts, the motel pool decks, the dining cars, the souvenir decals, the dashboard rituals, and the things that quietly disappeared while no one was looking.
Our beat is everyday travel history. Not the destinations themselves, but the rituals around them, across aviation, road trips, motels, hotels and resorts, rail travel, cruises, lost destinations, family vacations, luggage and souvenirs, trip planning, international travel, and the milestones that changed how Americans moved.
— From the Publisher —
Jon Dykstra
Founder & Publisher
Jon founded Journey Junket to document the small, vanishing details of how we used to travel. The motel pool decks, the airline meal carts, the dashboard rituals, the things that seemed too ordinary to write down until they were gone.
A publisher on the open web since the early 2010s, he writes most days from his desk in North Vancouver and spends the rest of his time on the slopes, the trails, and the coastal waters of Metro Vancouver. He’s lived in the United States extensively and remains a regular traveler, usually with a notebook in his pocket and a question about what used to be on this corner.
— From the Masthead —
Erika Eineigel
Managing Editor
Erika is the managing editor of Journey Junket. She works closely with the bench of writers, shaping pitches, sharpening drafts, and making sure no detail slips through. Whether it’s the right year of a vanished airline, the spelling of a long-closed motor lodge, or the small turn of phrase that brings a forgotten travel ritual back to life.
She keeps the publication on schedule and the prose honest, and she has a particular soft spot for the golden-age cruise ship and the great American motel sign.
— The Masthead —
The Writers
A small bench of curious people who write the pages.
Writer
Cairo Ferguson
Cairo grew up bouncing between cities across Canada and the United States, and the wandering shaped a careful eye for how places remember themselves. The diners that hang on, the motor lodges that don’t, the small towns the freeway forgot. Hailing from Vancouver, she writes on West Coast travel history, Pacific Northwest road culture, and the kind of detail you only catch if you’re walking, not driving.
Writer
Graham Stuart
Graham is a writer, poet, and former bartender based in Montreal. After years behind the stick in fine dining rooms and cocktail bars, he turned his attention to the worlds those rooms once belonged to. The grand hotel lounges, the supper-club circuits, the cocktail rituals of the dining car and the ocean liner bar. In his off hours, he’s usually camping or restoring an old bike.
Writer
Savannah Lentz
Savannah writes from the road, usually from the front seat of a Jeep, with truck-stop coffee in the cup holder and Townes Van Zandt on the speakers. She’s drawn to the small wonders that get overlooked at highway speed: alpaca-stocked gas stations, motel ice machines, diners with a pie case still in service. She covers Americana, road-trip culture, and the slow art of paying attention.