It isn’t easy to be a travel blogger with a partner, at least not when you spend the first six years of your travel blogging career as a travel blogger without one.
Continue ReadingPhuket Is More Than Just a Beautiful Beach
Phuket boasts more than a hundred kilometers of coastline, but is much more than just a beautiful beach destination.
Continue ReadingLand of Entrapment
Four words pop into my head every time I think of the desert: “Aujourd’hui, maman est morte.”
Continue ReadingGhosts and Referenda
Yes: I shaved 13 days off a two-week trip, and flew halfway around the world (and back!) in two days so that I could make things right—and garden, bake brownies and watch the season finale of Veep—with the love of my life.
Continue Reading30 Pictures That Will Make You Want to Visit Costa Rica
I can’t postulate as to how long it will take you to fall in love with Costa Rica, but I do imagine these pictures will make you want to see for yourself, if you haven’t already.
Continue Reading30 Pictures That Will Make You Want to Visit Ethiopia
Would I recommend Ethiopia? If you’re willing to work, to persevere and to laugh as the country flushes out your emotions, your ego and your digestive tract over and over again, then absolutely.
Continue ReadingHallucinations at the Door to Hell
Selective vision is a necessity, on the Ethiopian plateau and in the hellish valleys beneath it, whether your selection is to be blind or to see.
Continue ReadingKings and Hustlers
It is not the speed with which you climb a mountain, but the grace with which you look upon everything beneath it that makes you royal.
Continue ReadingThree Days in Hong Kong
Planning a trip to Hong Kong? Here are my suggestions on how to spend three days in Hong Kong, whether it’s your first trip here or your fiftieth.
Continue Reading30 Pictures That Will Make You Want to Visit Hong Kong
The person I was when I stepped onto the streets of Hong Kong 13 years ago no longer exists, in part because he stepped onto them.
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