Holiday Gift Guide for the Traveler in Your Life
A holiday gift guide to provide you with ideas while you shop for the traveler on your list.
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A holiday gift guide to provide you with ideas while you shop for the traveler on your list.
Holiday Gift Guide for the Traveler in Your Life Read More »
I don’t like carrying travel guides while traveling. Now there’s the GPSMyCity app to replace the guidebook (or at least a portion of it).
Traveler Review & Giveaway: GPSMyCity App Read More »
Shiao Su leaned his forehead against the closed door and shut his eyes. The vibration of the Zheng strings passed through the door to his body. He lost the courage to knock on the door. -Snow Line, Apologies Forthcoming The following review is revised from one written years ago. As this marks the 50th anniversary
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“I’d been alive a long time but my life, like most lives, seemed to have happened too quickly, when I was not ready.” I was introduced to the work of Hanif Kureishi when I studied in London — a course on colonial literature included his first novel, Buddha of Suburbia, which I found thoroughly entertaining.
Traveler Reads: The Body by Hanif Kureishi Read More »
The most important necessity for me to have while traveling is coffee. I couldn’t live without my travel coffeemaker.
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It’s easy to travel with Airbnb accommodation, as I have for 10 out of 14 months in East Asia and Italy. It has mostly been a positive experience.
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Drinking in Korea is more than just boring beer that The Economist complained about a few years ago. There’s craft beer, soju, and makgeolli to enjoy.
Despite a lack of variety, I sampled the beers in Taiwan, or at least in Taipei. There is very little available, but I found a few decent beers.
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Japan loves ramen so much that there’s an entire museum dedicated to it — the Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum. I love ramen so much that I visited the museum.
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Reviewing the Columbia Techlite hiking shoes that I’ve had for a couple years–the durability and comfort will be missed when they wear out.
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A review of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities from a travel perspective.
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A Friday night dinner of Austro-Hungarian food and beer at the Hoboken Pilsner Haus.
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A traveler and former China expat’s review of River Town, the first book on China by The New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler.
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I hate shopping, so it’s important for me to buy products that last. Of course, I wasn’t thinking that my boots would last as long as they have. When I moved to Colorado for grad school in 2003, my Dr Martens, which I bought in London in 2000, were showing their age — the soles
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Celebrating fostering a dog with some tasty beers, including Smuttynose Really Old Brown Dog, Bruery Autumn Maple, and Great Divide Espresso Oak Aged Yeti.