What Whiskey Will Do to a Town
I was tired of the van. When you’re traveling with a guide, as I was, recently, in Wales and Ireland, you are forever whisked off to see the so-called interesting stuff. But I like to see the inner workings of another culture. Not the castle or the beach, where there are sure to be three […]
Crawling toward Bangalore
My friend Dale and I were on our way to the Chennai airport 20 years ago—in fact, Chennai was still called Madras back then—when I saw the picture. It was on a poster promoting tourism in India, and it showed a train so full of people that the very roof was filled with them. A […]
Four Corners of the SouthWest
The mesas loom above us on either side as our raft drifts down the San Juan River. Sheer cliffs of crumbly sandstone and shale rise hundreds of feet into the air, eating into the blue sky, of which only a sliver is visible. On the rocky shore to our left, a bighorn ram looks up […]
In Wales, unplugging best way to connect
It took every fiber of my being to keep from pulling out my smartphone and ending the argument. That, however, is not how arguments end in Wales. I was in the town of Conwy in northern Wales, and earlier had been walking the ancient fortified walls when it seemed as though everyone was staring at me. It […]