Rome: August 2017 To return to Rome at the end of summer is to find a city altered. Where water flowed from waist-high fountains in June, now their drains are chalky instead of slippery-green. A drought stalks the city. I hear imagined trickles the way a […]
Thanks from Wanderlust! It’s been quite the year. We’ve had 44,239 visitors since I started up this online journal of travel stories in Oct 2017. I’m so inspired by the emails and comments and community we’re building here. I’m not stopping here. Let’s keep […]
Travel Essay: Sometime after noon the call to prayer comes rising over the sound of the engine that carries me from one continent to another across the Bosporus. Since arriving in these lands these have become my favorite hours in which time both stands still […]
Nothing will prioritize the quintessence of time in your life more than arriving at your layover destination 60 minutes late. It is even more stressful when your second flight happens to be international and you’ve eaten nothing and are about to fly across five time […]
Travel Essay: It does not take long for the natives of Guanacaste, Costa Rica to sell the philosophy of Pura Vida, or “pure life,” nor for visitors to envy the gorgeous work life balance that the Ticos, as they’re affectionately called, seem to achieve each […]
