by Dodie Cross
As I set these thoughts to paper, I must tell the reader that I am fine now. In fact, as I write this I realize how lucky I am. However, that was not the case fifteen years ago.
I didn’t make it to the ladies room in time. I’d been playing golf with some [...]
by Darrin DuFord
A gastronomic exploration of Nicaragua’s post-war highlands reveals renewed talent for suckling and a stubborn joie de vivre.
“Chicken, chicken, soda, soda!”
I was sweating in a parked bus, serenaded by barks from Managua’s take on curb service. I didn’t believe the vendors would be able to stand tall enough to push their products [...]
by Melissa Myers
I’ve pounded down a fistful of live termites in Costa Rica, pierced my septum at a Maori tribal ritual in New Zealand, and attempted to ride a cow in Wales. (I don’t recommend the latter.) Ticking off a list of “must sees” isn’t exactly my idea of a good time. This was especially [...]
by Tom Weller
Clouds of dust bloom around feet pounding across the bronze field, bare earth baked hard by the Chadian sun. I move with the flow of the action, like a swimmer tossed by swirling currents. I angle hard to the right before circling around to the left, I drive forward, arms and legs pumping [...]
by Gail Trotin
There she goes again. She stood only 5 foot tall, but she had a way about her that implied a certain strength in that small frame. This intrigued me. Her face, enshrouded by the hood of her black cloak, was deeply carved by a life full of soucis (worries) and yet the [...]
by Phil Goldman
[Dateline: Bangkok] Thousands of Thai Nationals have taken to the streets, armed with high-powered squirt rifles, hoses and buckets - completely soaking everything in their way. Songkran, the three-day, nationwide Thai Water Festival has begun. All business and traffic has come to a standstill. You are advised to please remain indoors or inside [...]
by Phil Goldman
If my first three weeks in the Thai jungle taught me one thing, it was this: I was not prepared, mentally or emotionally, to be a guide. There was nothing I could really do about that, and while it’s never stopped me from doing anything before (and it certainly wasn’t going to [...]
by Janet Forman
After thirty years of Khao Pad Naem, Gaeng Bawt and Curry Kapitan, my rulebook for eating in Asia has evolved into one simple dictum: Never set foot in a restaurant. At least not one with a roof or walls. While most gourmands analyze guidebooks and scrutinize blogs for the sleekest temples of haute [...]
by Carol Beddo
Mid-July in Los Angeles, my newborn grandchild needs no more than her diaper. Less than a mile from the Pacific coastline, offshore breezes from Venice Beach wring out warm and dry as they flow up the slight incline and cross Lincoln Avenue. These hot winds embrace us; Nora cradles in the crook of [...]
by Marie Javins
Antarctica is the last great lawless frontier, a massive expanse of ice with temperatures that are the coldest and deadliest on the planet. Marie Javins finds that none of this keeps the icy continent from joining the mass tourism parade.
Black ocean waves crash onto rocky gray shores, or lap up against [...]
