Yak & Metok གཡག་དང་མེ་ཏོག།
Brown fields beneath snow-covered mountains under a wide, cloudy sky

Yak & Metok

གཡག་དང་མེ་ཏོག།

Stories from the places we've called home.

Two lives, many places, one little home on the internet.

Our Story Explore Places

Our Story

Some stories begin in one place.
Ours has crossed mountains, cities, languages, and continents.

Yak & Metok is our small archive of the places we have lived, the journeys we have taken, and the ordinary moments we don't want to lose.

  1. Tibet

    Where many of our stories begin.

  2. China

    Years of study, work, friendship, and change.

  3. New York

    A new country and another beginning.

  4. Boston

    Our current chapter.

  5. Wherever Comes Next

    The story is still being written.

Places We've Called Home

Prayer flags in front of a snow-covered mountain under a blue sky

Tibet

Mountains, family, language and memory.

The Manhattan Bridge framed by red brick buildings in New York

New York

The beginning of our American chapter.

The Boston skyline across the water on a clear day

Boston

Home for now.

Little Pieces of Life

Not every memory needs to be important to be worth keeping.

A pond in a city park with tall buildings in the distance

October 2026

A Sunday Somewhere

Small ordinary days often become the memories we keep longest.

A black lantern hanging from a tree

Massachusetts

Salem in October

Witches, autumn streets, strange little shops and a day away from ordinary life.

Plates of dumplings on a table

Boston

Dinner at Home

Sometimes a photograph of dinner remembers more than we expect.

A Little Tibetan

མེ་ཏོག Metok — Flower
གཡག Yak

Two simple Tibetan words became the name of our little home on the internet.

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Moments

Hover over or tap a photograph to see where and when.

A mountain rising behind a still lake
Tibet, 2017 A still lake at the foot of the mountains.
A yellow taxi on a street between tall buildings
New York, 2021 Yellow cabs and the noise of a new city.
A brown brick building behind green trees
Boston, 2024 Brick, green leaves, and a street that started to feel like ours.
Colorful prayer flags strung against a blue sky
Tibet, 2019 Prayer flags and a very blue sky.
An arch over a brick walkway
Salem, 2025 An autumn walk through old brick streets.
The New York City skyline across the Hudson River at golden hour
New York, 2022 The skyline from across the river at golden hour.

About Yak & Metok

This isn't a portfolio and it isn't quite a blog.

It's a place for photographs, stories, voices, places, and fragments of a life shared between two people.

Some things belong on social media.
Some things deserve a home of their own.