Antibiotics and Hot Love

This is not, I can assure you, how I’d intended to reacquaint myself with Austria. I did not want to take breakfast in my room, I did not want to hand over my credit card to pay for a pile of medication, I did not want to miss the field trip to the high meadows. …


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Bus Stop

I take a local bus from my house, and then, I switch to an express. When I change buses, there’s a wide faced woman with Chinese eyes, maybe she’s a Native American, maybe Alaskan, maybe one of those mixed up types we have here, a little Chinese, some Pacific Islander… it’s not that important, but …


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A Little News

This is a kind of a big deal. There’s more about Book Passage on the web, here. And Don George, the crazy human who thought I should join the faculty, literally wrote the book on travel writing. What I’m saying is this: I’ve been invited to join the prestigious faculty at Book Passage, a well …


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Why I’m Not a Full Time Travel Writer

I write for a living; I am a writer by occupation. Not a travel writer, specifically, I’m “just” a writer. I sit at a keyboard, put words in a certain order to describe things, and then, I get paid. On technical projects, where I make most of my money, I’m paid by the hour. Rather …


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