Thailand’s Koh Chang
Bang! Bang! Bang! After an interval of 5 seconds, I caught it again — the brief and strange...
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Kiribati: A Ring in the Pacific
“Tying up to a pier and disembarking through the passenger gangway isn’t an...
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John Updike’s Muse
I had a special link to John Updike, the celebrated writer who died in 2009. I once served as his...
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Rwanda – A Hilly Paradise
Over and over, I had heard, ?Rwanda is the safest, cleanest country in Africa?. Skeptical, I often...
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Making the Most of a Nine-Hour Layover at Seoul’s Incheon Airport
I wanted a Goldilocks layover on a return flight from Vietnam — not too long and not too...
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A Cacao Ceremony under the Cenizaro, Costa Rica
I sleep in a treehouse, framed with bamboo and protected by walls made of clay. I wake to the...
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Chicago — ?A Little Sumpin Sumpin?
Chicago had ?A Little Sumpin Sumpin? for me this weekend. I had not traveled to the city since...
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Borjomi vs. Atlanta: A Tale of Two Georgias
August 8, 2022: People ask me here sometimes, as they often do of foreigners everywhere, where...
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