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Oct 2, 2025
I built my career on artful narratives of adventure. But was I lying to my readers — and to myself?
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Sep 12, 2025
My recollection of the past is crisp but scattered. Will a pile of ancient photos make sense of it all?
Sep 3, 2025
My brain makes it hard to live in the moment, but there's one place I've found I can truly be present: the highway.
Jul 24, 2025
How one terrible book of puns opened my eyes to the potential of language.
May 29, 2025
In the mid-1990s, Phuong Anh Nguyen made Q Bar the most important bar in Vietnam—and possibly the world.
May 28, 2025
Celebrity travel shows are the worst, even when you love the celebrity. But they don't have to be bad!
Apr 24, 2025
As a travel writer and a New Yorker, I'm supposed to say "on foot." I'm starting to think that's wrong.
Apr 7, 2025
Please enjoy this email I sent to everyone, written on a flight to Hong Kong, back in 2005.
Mar 31, 2025
My travel bucket list is pretty much complete. But there's still a ton left to do.
Mar 20, 2025
In which our hero, a Brooklyn dad, finds himself alone in New York City, free to do whatever he wishes. But what is that, exactly?
Mar 10, 2025
A symbol of the 21st century's golden age of travel is going away, and I have some thoughts (and feelings)!
Mar 6, 2025
A milestone family trip to Key West reminded me of the pitfalls—and, fine, rewards—of my profession.
Jan 27, 2025
As of 2024, the world is back to pre-pandemic levels of international travel—and not everyone is happy about it. What to do?
Jan 9, 2025
In our brains, countries come and go. Is that just travel propaganda at work?
Dec 31, 2024
On travel media's misguided obsession with the "local" experience.
