Our Story

We’re Saloni and Deep.

Two people learning how to slow down while moving through the world. Travel didn’t begin the same way for both of us.

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Saloni was studying Italian and French in Mumbai when she received a scholarship to Siena. At 19, it was her first time alone in a foreign country, with an unfamiliar language and no safety net.

It was exhilarating and terrifying in equal measure. Siena taught her how to trust strangers, adapt quickly and find her way through uncertainty. That first journey quietly changed everything.

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Deep grew up on stories of his parents reaching the southern tip of India on their honeymoon and running out of money, only for a stranger to help them continue. Those stories stayed. They turned into a life driven by movement — long rides, mountains, sport and adrenaline. For years, travel meant speed and the next high.

Until it didn’t.

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Somewhere along the way, we realised we were moving fast but not always present. We were collecting moments without letting them stay.

So our way of travelling changed.

We stopped chasing bucket lists and started chasing feeling. Staying longer. Asking more questions. Listening more — to places, to people and to ourselves.

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Dust On Our Shoes is a reflection of that shift.

A slow travel blog about journeys that shape us, places that ask us to pause, and experiences that stay long after we return.

Because the travel that changes you is never just the destination, it’s the dust you carry with you long after the journey ends.