A Life Lesson: Remembering My Friend, Emma Lou Dailey

Listening to New York

New York talks to you. It relentlessly chatters away in your ear. This is no droning mumble — NYC is clear and forthright. It doesn’t always scream and shout, but it definitely won’t shut up. And I was enthralled by what it had to say.

Oh no, you’re not going to…

A sort of homecoming

‘And your earth moves beneath your own dream landscape’ - ‘A sort of homecoming’ by U2

Need Some Perspective? Ask a Taxi Driver.

Taxi drivers are among some of the most interesting people I come into contact with on…

Where Should You Move? 10 Semi-Horrible Ideas

In the last six years I have lived in the center of major European cities, in…

The Best City in the US

The city for stoners and scholars, gay rights and human rights, sun worshippers and skiers, artists and performers, beer lovers and bike riders.

Could Denver, Colorado be the best city in the United States?

Like all visitors

Last weekend, I visited the Palace of Versailles. It is both a strange and familiar place.It has become an unavoidable stage to…

Best Travel So Far

It happened last year. April of 2012. We went to Palawan, me and my mother and my brother and his wife with their children my…

Top 10 Taglines Rejected by Costa Rica’s Tourism Board

1. Where does the bus stop? Where it stops.

2. Today’s gringo menu? Identical to the local’s menu but with a 450% you-ain’t-Latino surcharge.