In my twenties, it’s because people who travel were cool. In my thirties, it’s because traveling was cool. And in my forties, well…...

I've never let not knowing how to do something get in the way of me doing it. If that sounds braggadocios, take a look at where I am. If...

Funny all of the things you don’t notice until someone points them out... such as gear. Considering not only the amount I travel—but the...

In this day in age of conspiracy theories, of amateur internet sleuths and of forced transparency, it always surprises me the amount of...

I’m hoping it’s going to be one of those why-did-I-wait-so-long kind of things, but I don’t know. Much like writing, photography, little...

Much like doing the Instagram Stories reminds me of my luck (as does this little project), so did lying in bed for nearly two weeks—sick...

You might think it a scene from Mad Men, a Western fast-food spin doctor somehow convinces a completely different people that not only do...

I think ramen will forever be in my Top Five Snacks of All-Time. In fact, it was the Truffle Butter Brother + Dungeness Crab Spicy Ramen...

It was 2007, I believe. I was home for the holidays and Dad and I took a road trip to our old neighborhood in Harrah, OK (pop. 4501......

How To Use A Japanese Space Toilet Only in Japan would the most disgusting thing a human being does be taken to futuristic and enjoyable...

The biggest issue with Japan is two-fold. #1 - There are a lot of rules: Etiquette, gift-giving, male/female specific grammar, exchanging...

Along with the sites, smells and kaleidoscopic beauty that makes up Northern Vietnam, so was the slow-and-steady drip, drip, drip of the...

South Korea wasn’t my jam. A diatribe of my issues with it filled a few pages—along with a nickname for the country I thought to be very...

The effect was immediate. Maybe I was in desperate need of architecture or maybe he was just that good. He being Tadao Ando—of whom many...

I can't be sure, but Ssamjang seems to be something that could only exist in South Korea. Gummy, spicy and both sweet and salty, it...

'That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.' — Adriana, Midnight in...

(Click here to listen to the audio version of this story and here for the PDF version.) Even though it was dark outside, I could see...

What I liked almost as much as the taste, was that on three separate occasions—after I had asked for the somewhat confusing* Khao...

A formula to make you understand better is posted everywhere: If a planeload of bombs was dropped every eight minutes for nine years....

Is it “Low” or is it “Lous”? The usual question with a somewhat confusing answer. But with any country—especially one who used to be...