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Dec 9, 2016

Saigon Dreams

I’ve been meaning for over a month now to write about Vietnam, but every time I sit down to do so the words slip away. Maybe I need time to digest, I told myself. The trip needs to coalesce, to firm up. But it never did. When I think on…

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Saigon Dreams
Saigon Dreams
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Sep 20, 2016

Here There Be Giants

Four years ago for our honeymoon, we traveled to the Grand Teton National Park. I fell in love with the Tetons immediately, head over heels. Teeth rising straight out of the earth, fierce and abrupt, like a hand simply slipped underneath and pushed. Yet the Tetons were familiar in their…

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Here There Be Giants
Here There Be Giants
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Mar 13, 2016

Rage Against the 2nd Draft

Last week I attended a talk by Daniel Handler at Hugo House. Handler was witty and intelligent and generous (and the topic, “bewilderment,” fascinating). During the Q&A, someone asked how many drafts he typically writes. If memory serves, he said three or four. …

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·Jan 24, 2016

These Stories Run Deep

Walking through the labyrinthine streets of the Plaka neighborhood in Athens, you don’t have to know that people have walked here for 7,000 years — you can feel it. Cobblestones worn by millennia of footsteps, the smell of roasting meat, the hot fecund air sticking to your neck. That citadel…

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These Stories Run Deep
These Stories Run Deep
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Dec 15, 2015

Thin Places (Or, the Goat Leg)

Empty your heart of its mortal dream. -William Butler Yeats Have you heard of “thin places”? It’s originally a Celtic term — the idea that some places on earth are “thin” and therefore closer to “the other side,” whatever that might be. Ireland is one of those places. Unless you’ve…

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Thin Places (Or, the Goat Leg)
Thin Places (Or, the Goat Leg)
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·Jul 19, 2015

The Low Down — STMT X USA

Get Lost — Sometimes you take a wrong turn and find yourself on a gravel road in an unknown mountain pass with no AC. Like last year and the year before, we knew we wanted to head east — out to the desert, where muted rainbow hues splash the landscape and molasses-thick air…

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The Low Down — STMT X USA
The Low Down — STMT X USA
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Sep 23, 2014

Unfocused

What once would induce boredom brings on something new and foreign; you become unfocused. Like any born-and-bred American, road trips are in my DNA. Growing up, they were an integral part of family vacations. We never did any truly epic routes — the longest was Seattle to Santa Monica, with…

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Unfocused
Unfocused
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Published in Low-Down Travel

·Jul 18, 2014

Desert Memos

This is what happens when you travel to a yurt in the desert and read Barry Lopez. — photo by LD Oxford Drive east on highway 90, past suburbia and floating bridges until you hit the top, the mountain pass with the ski resort to the north and the long lake to your south. Everything looks the same for a while, until suddenly the trees stop. One second…

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Desert Memos
Desert Memos
Desert

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Mar 13, 2014

Stockholm Syndrome

You can’t say no to The Bartender. — photo by LD Oxford “Can I help you?” “Oh, we were hoping to get a drink at the bar, but it looks like it’s full?” “One moment.” The bar was incredibly inviting — hexagonal tile on the floors, dark wood at the bar and dark leather on the booths. Huge…

Stockholm

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Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm

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