Keegan | Matthew Yifeng

KEEGAN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP

In 2022 - 2023, I solo traveled for 436 days across 22 countries to study love and marriage around the world.

Here are snippets and images from a newsletter I kept for friends and family.

A scary experience in Wadi Rum, Jordan.

Thoughts on the necessity of marriage after studying it for a year in different cultures.

A scenario I couldn't have dreamt up in Bangkok, Thailand.

A quarter of a century spent on earth.

Seeking out bits of home around the world.

Returning to China for the first time since it closed its borders in March 2020.

A lesson on polygamy and commitment in Kenya with a goat somewhere in between.

Unexpected reunions and a wedding in Sicily.

Connecting dots in Stockholm from the past few months and the start of something special.

Vanderbilt Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellowship Proposal