California Car-Camping (Where to Go, How to Do It, and Where to Find the World’s Best Cherry Pie)
If you can find that sweet spot where your feet lie perfectly between the driver’s and passenger’s seats, and you fold down the seat in...
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- Mar 2, 2020
- 3 min
Gabon
I type this at a crooked table drinking lukewarm lager, with stale cigarette smoke tangling on a thick ocean breeze as it sticks to my face.
- Jan 23, 2019
- 3 min
Beautiful Things in an Unjust World
Something I love about Mozambique is how Mozambicans love the water. There are a lot of people who only see the a river or the sea as a...
- Dec 19, 2018
- 4 min
Year's End
Seasons change in Mozambique, but if you just look at it, with its year-round emerald green palm trees and tangled patches of flowers,...
- Jan 18, 2018
- 8 min
The Time a Snickers Bar in the Himalayas Saved My Life
Or, at least, made being trapped in the Himalayas after an avalanche a bit more tolerable. Somehow, a Snickers bar is most satisfying...
- Jan 4, 2018
- 4 min
Going One-Way
I recognize, and apologize for, my pretty much complete absence from this blog for the past however-many-months. Every time I would go to...
- Aug 23, 2016
- 2 min
Cuba
Rooftop bars where white-bearded expats sit in woven hats amongst young Brits in polos, smoking their long cigarettes and drinking...
- Aug 1, 2016
- 6 min
Java & Sumatra
Picture this. In five days of insanity, you traveled to the mountainous interior of Java, Indonesia. You summited two active volcanos,...
- Jul 26, 2016
- 2 min
To a Good Old Friend
I guess you had to die eventually. I just never thought it would happen while I’m routinely untangling you from the ropes on top of a 4X4...
- Jul 16, 2016
- 4 min
Bali & Lombok
Sometimes, I don’t take out my camera. It doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, it’s usually for the same reason, and happens in...
- Jul 5, 2016
- 6 min
A Moment of Transparency
I was supposed to go to Indonesia four days ago. My final group of clients left Zambia, and I was supposed to pick myself up and get on a...
- Jul 2, 2016
- 6 min
On Wanting to Stay & Knowing to Go
When I was a teenager, I was hiking down a rocky trail on a small mountain in northern Tanzania when I tripped and landed straight on a...
- Jun 30, 2016
- 7 min
Shifts in Perspective from Morocco
Shifts that come in the form of compassion; in the form of Moroccan mint tea. When I think of my first visit to Morocco years ago, I...
- Jun 2, 2016
- 4 min
Con Amor, From Peru
The first stop on a journey around the world. It’s a Friday afternoon and I’m sitting at a cafe overlooking the main historic square of...
- Mar 23, 2016
- 5 min
Karibu Nyumbani
Let's back up to the beginning. I was standing by the mailbox. There was an open envelope in my hand and a letter in the other, with the...
- Jan 23, 2016
- 4 min
Dreams of Finland
Every once in awhile, this strange thing happens. You arrive somewhere — whether by boat, horseback, bus, or in this case, snowshoe — and...
- Feb 10, 2015
- 5 min
To See the Northern Lights
It was my final night in the Arctic. We hiked for two miles through heavy snow under the bent limbs of silver trees. At around midnight,...
- Jan 3, 2015
- 5 min
Kolkata
Kolkata, India was the first place that showed me that the world doesn’t have to be exactly what I want it to be.
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