August 18, 2016• Travel
Posted from: San Francisco, California One Valentine’s Day in the nascent months of World War II, and not long after the opening of...
July 10, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Taipei, Taiwan The national weather service tells me that Typhoon Chan-Hom is unlikely to make critical landfall near northern...
June 20, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Beijing, China This is one of several pieces I did on urban exploration for now-defunct website Smart Beijing. Holed up in his...
May 19, 2015• Travel
Posted from: Beijing, China This is one of several pieces I did on offbeat urban tourism for now-defunct website Smart Beijing. I like...
April 23, 2015• Travel
Wuhan, China I realized as I sat next to it with a bowl of reganmian that I’d never actually seen the Yangzi. It’s muddy. We...
August 1, 2014• Travel
In Turkey, there’s a mountain made of bone. It rises right out of the valley, a few dozen miles of grapes and dirt and then this...
July 8, 2014• Travel
Istanbul, Turkey Everyone warned me this would happen. They told me over and over, and yeah, I was kind of excited, but I just didn’t...
May 24, 2014• Travel
Xiongxian, China “Local XiongXian Man Marries Beautiful Swedish Bride, an International Romance is Consummated”. I didn’t...
January 3, 2014• Travel
Bali, Indonesia Three days into what has turned out to be the most scrumptiously adventure-free trip I’ve ever taken, Kyle and I had...
November 10, 2013• Travel
Seoul, South Korea A friend of mine recently told me that no one had ever thrown her a surprise party. She’d never been to one,...
