Hello, world!
My name is Keith Brooks, and I’m a queer, Black traveler, writer and communications consultant currently living in İstanbul, Turkey. I created Keith Meets World to document my adventures here in Turkey and abroad, and where travel intersects with my lived experiences and identities.
If you’ve come here by chance, welcome! After visiting 65 countries, countless cities and crossing six continents, I wanted to share my love of travel, expertise and learnings to make travel fun and accessible for everyone, especially those from underrepresented communities.
I’ve written for Fodor’s Travel and have been featured by a number of travel blogs. If you’d like to work together or have ideas, feel free to send them my way. In the meantime, I invite you to learn more about my adventures by clicking the Latest Posts below, or discovering my top tips from some of the destinations I’ve visited in the City Guides section. Be sure to also follow my real-time adventures on Instagram and my #sothisisturkey video series on YouTube.
Happy travels!
Keith
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![#TB [Antigua, Guatemala, Dec 2019] Is this my best angle? Is the lighting good here? Trying to get the “shot” at some centuries-old ruins as usual, this time with @maurojo88’s help 😅😎 #lategram #blackhattravels #queertravel #insta](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587948254208-RHBUQK9B3PHSAFVJ53J5/image-asset.jpeg)
![#TB [Antigua, Guatemala, Dec 2019] Antigua was just stunning, in unexpected ways. I got a chance to browse the grounds of the Convento Santa Clara and the Las Capuchinas and more with @maurojo88, and was kind of blown away by how much was still prese](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587948254208-H9GZFN9ENI53D5UHNW4B/image-asset.jpeg)
![#TB [Antigua, Guatemala, Dec 2019] Hola Antigua! I got to see Guatemala’s historic gem and first cultural capital Antigua back at the end of 2019. I’m standing at the Santa Catalina Arch, the famous landmark you’ve probably seen in](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587854050886-D4CP2ECPNBP93NKKFAOM/image-asset.jpeg)
![#TB [Guatemala City, Dec 2019] Smile! You’re on candid camera, @maurojo88 😎 #selfie with the handsome one from the first day in Guatemala City back at the end of last year. #travel #latergram #blackhattravels #guatemala #guatemalacity #queertr](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587784979415-B91MLJFPXCZ90IMIO1GI/image-asset.jpeg)
![#TB [Guatemala City, Dec 2019] More shots of colorful and slightly chaotic Guatemala City. Had a chance to stop inside the beautiful Catedral Primada Metropolitana de Santiago, had a peek of the jade-colored Palacio Nacional which was closed, and an](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587784979415-SAKZD8MOPL9RNG5J99B0/image-asset.jpeg)
![#TB [Guatemala, Dec 2019] Man, I wish I could just rewind to my trip to Central America! Since we’re stuck in the house until who knows when, I have time to share photos from the trip. The first leg started out in Guatemala City, Guatemala, and](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58a23f6b1e5b6cdacb473b61/1587778696243-19QSVUY7ZVXNX8O7JFE0/image-asset.jpeg)
