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This is what I look like when I juggle 22 Jul 2013 | 08:13 pm
Some of you may not know that I have been juggling since I was 12 years old. Still more of you may not know that next summer I will be competing in the International Jugglers’ Association world team c...
In which I face a cuckolded husband and machete justice on the island of Tinian 9 Jul 2013 | 09:20 pm
The shirtless, strapping, Pacific Islander man standing roughly 20 feet in front of me was possibly drunk, definitely pissed off, and holding a two foot machete. His unkempt hair, smoldering facial e...
A vomit anthology – celebrating 20 years barf-free 20 Jun 2013 | 08:58 pm
Twenty years ago this week, possibly even this day, was the last time I vomited. This was no run of the mill, spew-wipe-and-go caliber vomit, which is why I remember the event so well. It was spectac...
Moldova Travel Guide app for iPhone and Android released! 17 Jun 2013 | 09:53 am
The first of many fruits from my recent press trip to Moldova has been completed. Drawing on this trip and my four previous visits to Moldova for Lonely Planet research over the past seven years, I ha...
Moldova Travel Guide app for iPhone and Android released! 17 Jun 2013 | 09:53 am
The first of many fruits from my recent press trip to Moldova has been completed. Drawing on this trip and my four previous visits to Moldova for Lonely Planet research over the past seven years, I ha...
How to write about food when you don’t know squat about food 26 Mar 2013 | 08:51 pm
Being that travel is effectively a perpetual exercise in ungraceful, humbling discovery, travel writers are often put in the position of writing about stuff that they knew little or nothing about befo...
Romania Traveler’s Guide app for iPhone and Android – The Enlargening 11 Mar 2013 | 10:43 pm
Remember last year when I went into utter seclusion for over a month, living on pizza and cheap wine, to painstakingly piece together my Romania Traveler’s Guide app (for iPhone, iPad and Android)? An...
Vietnamese food that went into my face 29 Jan 2013 | 09:27 pm
My 12 regular readers will back me up when I say that I rarely write about food. It’s just not my thing. Restaurant reviews, yes, but an entire post devoted to the stuff I shoveled into my soup hole o...
That time I was detained in Singapore and why I never made it to Cambodia and Vietnam 3 Jan 2013 | 07:08 pm
I have been sitting alone in this tiny room for a very long time. It seems so anyway. Time has a way of becoming deceptively elastic under certain conditions. Like how the three minutes it takes to ea...
Lost, at night, in the jungle highlands of Borneo 10 Dec 2012 | 11:47 pm
[This is an edited and re-mastered excerpt from my 2005 travelogue, recounting my visit to Bario, in Malaysian Borneo.] Myriad thoughts race through your mind when you are lost and alone at night in t...
