Five decades of moments
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. • Canadian author Sandra Lake This New Year's marked the 50th anniversary [...]
Of monks, monkeys, and kids
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To [...]
When tourism goes mad
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. • Confucius Last year, Conde [...]
The kisses left behind
When good Americans die, they go to Paris. • Oscar Wilde In the end, Paris will defeat a writer. But [...]
The man who wasn’t there
Emmanuel Mbasha was a proud member of the Chagga tribe and came from the Machame district of Tanzania, at the [...]
One beautiful mess
Everything you see I owe to pasta. • Sophia Loren Italy has been resting on its laurels for countless generations. [...]
Our kid in Moscow
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. • T.S. Eliot I [...]
A very rich man
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. [...]
Rentals in the afterlife
I hope to arrive at my death late, in love and a little drunk. • from the writings of ancient [...]
Land of unlikely smiles
Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul/And sings the tune without the words/And never stops /at all [...]
Stop blaming mountains
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. — Khalil Gibran With the loss of an [...]
With Billy on the Kapuas River
Billy, the short man at the bow of our skiff, is regaling the four...