Survival is the ability to swim in strange water," writes Frank Herbert in his 1965 science fiction novel, Dune. When Octavia E. Butler...

I am honored to be living out my dream of traveling the world for my 30th birthday. I will be spending half of 2018 journeying throughout...

It’s an interesting concept, to paint one’s face to celebrate life by drawing on death. In modern societies, the painting of one’s face...

Stepping off of the plane in Bucharest one can instantly feel the weight of history here... Dark and dramatic it seems soaked into the...

Utopia has been discovered! This was my impression upon leaving Jamaica the first time. Even after my second visit it remained a...

Muscles straining… A sudden assault of dizziness- quickly conquered by the fierce joy of doing it. As the people below begin to shrink...

Panama is a country of links. Situated on an isthmus, it geographically links Central and South America. The man-made Panama Canal links...

Two years, 11 months, 26 days, 7 hours, and 18 minutes – that’s how long I’ve been in the travel industry. 19 minutes now. I’m staring at...

“In the woods, a man casts off his years as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is...

It’s been a year (or two), but I’m still salivating over this dish… With the consistency of an ultra-rich mash this marrow topped potato...

Listening to Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik is like taking a bubble bath in the sun. The effervescent Allegro is spirited and...

I eye a Coca-Cola while ineffectively pushing the sticky air around my face with a copy of Travel + Leisure. I continue fanning as I try...

1. Natural Leadership Whether it’s heading a project at work or deciding where to have drinks with friends, people automatically look to...

Red has always been my favorite color. Like my love of trees, the number 18, and all things a little strange it’s just one of those...

Cut to me sitting in the grass, swiping at the purple pooled in the corners of my mouth, the rainbow powder-turned-paste now clogging the...

She flips through stations using a secret button on the steering wheel. Kurt Cobain fills the car, then Aretha Franklin, now it’s Bruno...

As the name implies, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo’s trendy eatery specializing in meat & offal delicacies is not for the...

Darth Vader is all I hear. Slow drag in on the tail of a rasping exhale, one chasing the other. Too fast, now too slow, not enough....

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