Guest Post: Thursday, Hong Kong

Is it possible to love a city as if it was the first city you have loved, or that loved you? Start with a definition of love. Love is not the adoration, constantly delivered, that keeps your pupils dilated, or the skin flush. Love is more like the horrible sense of self -awareness that your …


…read more.

Guest Post: The Healy in Ice

The USCGC Healy is a Coast Guard icebreaker designed as a science platform. It mostly operates in the Arctic and has reached the North Pole twice (2001 and 2005). It is currently being held over in Dutch Harbor to escort an emergency fuel shipment for Nome. Most crew members have been underway since May. My …


…read more.

Guest Post: Is Hawaii Worth It?

Imagine yourself in Hawaii. Images of sun, surf and sand will arise and a sigh may escape your lips – even if you have never visited the islands. But these same images can connect with coastal areas of the U.S. mainland, as well as other countries and tropical islands. Is Hawaii any different? If not, …


…read more.

Guest Post: Dog at Chatuchak Market

This dog was dressed to the nines and ready to go shopping at the weekend market to end all markets, the Chatuchak Market in Bangkok, Thailand.  Its owner was an equally interesting character — a local “ladyboy” wearing high heels, a mini skirt and white face makeup. — Heather Knight Heather Knight is a Portland, …


…read more.

Guest Post: The Wroth at Neist Point

Towering basalt cliffs, striated and turfed, punished by the wroth sea and roaring hysterics of the wind, stand in monolithic acceptance of the rain pounding from the anvil sky. Beneath the glacial waters of the Little Minch and through the Sea of the Hebrides, the causeway of the giants extends southwest to County Antrim. Birds …


…read more.