Travel Essays

Do We Expect Too Much from Travel?

How can we travel with as few expectations as possible, while articulating our negative experiences traveling without seeming entitled or ignorant, and in a way that actually has the potential to change the reasons underlying them?

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A Beautiful Accident

A few weeks ago, I returned to a place that had been important in my past, in an attempt to establish continuity with my present and my future.

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Travel and Mindfulness

Even if time does fly when you’re on the road, you don’t have to sit idly by while it does: Simply choose to be “mindful” of yourself and your surroundings when you travel.

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Boston and The Case for War

All human conflict occurs because of “this” reason. It is always the same reason – and it is always the same war.

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Do You Travel To Shed Your Skin?

Travel is the surest way to facilitate skin-shedding and growth, not to mention prevent blindness.

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Is There a Third Travel Way?

The dissonance between the “traveler” archetype the public craves and the one we travelers actually embody is not a result of the gender, sexuality or race of a particular narrator. It’s because today’s traveler – and, indeed, today’s travel – is fundamentally different than it has been at any point in even recent history.

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