I got into travel writing accidentally: it’s not something I intended to do, but a series of circumstances happened which made me into a travel...
I can imagine you trying to open the envelope that contains this letter, as weariness conquers you. I know you are still trying to come...
There’s a light that is particular to Chihuahuan desert of West Texas, to which the town of Marfa belongs, that has less to do with...
If anything has shaken me fully free from childhood desires to see the world as a concrete-mould, comprehensible place, a planet where all questions have...
“Travel photography has the opportunity to prick our senses and stimulate thoughts, yet the opposite is more common. The travel industry promotes images that help...
Abdul didn’t hear her say those words. But that’s what he imagined she would be saying to the men in front of her. She made...
This is where you could have died when you were four. Your tiny body smashed against the tree trunk, your back bent into an impossible...
When Keisha wrote down Harvard University on the list her college counsellor gave her parents, it was because she knew that he would tell her...
Tim and Kerry Meek were both full-time teachers in Nottingham, England but felt that their jobs were too life-consuming and they needed to redress their...
The smugglers said the journey would take 24 hours max. The boat H and the other 80 asylum seekers would travel in was massive, so...
As I picked my way carefully around the rocks on a trail that meandered in and out of a dry streambed I marveled at two...
I don’t remember when I developed the urge to travel. Did it start when I took my first film job in 2008, which saw me...
In July 1961 Grace Bumbry strode onstage at the Bayreuth Festival. She was 24, and had earned positive reviews at a few major opera houses...
The German verb erinnern was always one of the hardest for me to master. First there were its multiple syllables, without a hint as to...
In the late 1990s, my husband and I moved to Guadalajara, Mexico as he was attending the local medical school. In our early twenties, California-raised...
Sunlight streams through the plate glass windows of The Dupont Circle Hotel’s elegant café on a Thursday during the quiet time between lunch and happy...
I only count when the going is tough and on this, the second day of our 8-day backcountry ski expedition in northern Sweden, the going...
Bundled in a snow-suit, I am lost in the twilight sky as the familiar star patterns emerge. I point my new two-inch aperture telescope at...
In 2009, after completing my medical residency at a county hospital in Los Angeles I signed up to split my time between San Francisco and...
It’s Saturday morning and I’m heading for the farmer’s market in my town, which is two miles from my house. From June through November, this...