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on: Delhi
I can’t be certain, but Delhi might be the worst city in the world. How it has not collapsed upon its own greed, pollution, potholes and...


Everest Base Camp 2024 (and 2025!)
Not gonna lie to you, this one was tough. Half the weather—a winter storm came out of nowhere, leaving us truly looking like an...


Gurkhas—World's Most Feared Army
Before everyone flew out of Kathmandu, I brought them to a traditional “khkuri” knife shop. Kukhuri are the bent knives carried by the...


Recipe: Momo + Chutney
Admittedly, even looking at this photo makes me ill. Not in a nauseous, per se, just in a if-I-never-see-another-momo-again way. Nepal is...


Honoring The 12 Year-Old
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…...


design by flâneur
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...


Top Five Pieces of Travel Gear for 2024
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...


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


Back-Ish To School
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...


2023: A Look Back
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...


The Japanese Cult of Christmas KFC
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...


Tan Tan Ramen
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...


Rough Sundays—The Japanese Chapters
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......


On: Toilets (Three Essays)
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...


Sushi Do Sushi Don't
The biggest issue with Japan is two-fold. #1 - There are a lot of rules: Etiquette, gift-giving, male/female specific grammar, exchanging...


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


On: South Korea
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...


Tadao Ando—My Introduction
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...


Recipe: Ssamjang
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...


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