India resists introduction. It is too large, too layered, too contradictory to be reduced to a neat beginning. And yet every traveler who arrives—whether by…
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Cycling Toward the Atlantic: A Bicycle Journey Through France
My new book, Cycling Toward the Atlantic: A Bicycle Journey Through France, is now available on Amazon. This is not a guidebook. There are no…
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Roaming the Newly Awakened Tibet
I will never forget the moment I took this photograph. It was late afternoon, some fifty kilometers north of the Nepal-Tibet border crossing at Zhangmu.…
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Houthis: Memory of a Solo Trek Across Yemen
The Houthis have been in the news in recent weeks for attacking container ships in the Red Sea. They originated as a religious and political…
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