Travels

When I was a travel writer for the briefest of stints, I pitched like crazy to all sorts of editors. Recently I found an old email from 2006 that tried to find a NYC angle on things that was going on (I was pitching these articles while I was on

The lyrics were treacle, but the video was on point. This was the tail end of Oasis’s greatness as a band. Already there were signs of fracture. But in slow motion and black and white, everything is sublime.

From the first time we met at the Army surplus store in Philadelphia, from our first and best sunset in Sorrento to the final walk along the crests of California’s coast and all the adventures in the between, it has been a faithful friend.

So I left Tumblr around the middle of the year to… travel. This time to figure out what I wanted to do, what I loved to do and what I’d want to learn from life.

That first departure for Africa led me to a lifetime of travel. It shaped the way I see the world and showed me that there was more to write about than my own inner miseries. Paul Theroux: The Lesson of My Life This article has a lot of how I&

Writing good directions is not unlike poetry: an exercise in awareness, requiring an eye for detail and succinct but evocative language