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ABSTRACT Travel blogs are an under-utilized data repository of everyday geopolitical musings. These public, longform, generally reflexive texts allow researchers to better understand how travellers narrate their own positionality and agency within limiting state structures. Geopolitics scholars of varying theoretical and topical interests can use travel blogs as data to better understand how everyday tourists and travellers ‘live geopolitics.’ Drawing primarily from popular and feminist geopolitical insights, this paper shows how travel blogs help us to rethink questions about geopolitical authorship, especially within a digital landscape of media fragmentation. This paper also provides a case study on the geopolitical discourse of ‘border talk’ in the blogs of international volunteer teachers in Namibia.