Sunbaked in Albania is the third part of a running series of recollections from adventures in the Balkans. You can read the previous update, about a Roman city that stands in ruins mere footsteps away from the modern capital of Montenegro, here. How to build a road in Albania Things just haven’t been making sense […]
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Reflections on Place: Yokkaichi Honmachi
Sometimes you come across a place that looks like it was born directly from your own fantasies and imaginings. A place that looks, feels, and even sounds like a place that you had visited before, but only in your dreams. I found one such place in Yokkaichi, Mie last week. For the vast majority of […]
Iceland
It was dark when we arrived in Keflavik, at ten-thirty in the morning, after a red-eye that felt twice as long as what was actually traveled. But at least I was not connecting on to Europe, another five or six hours away. Those poor bastards. Dawn came as we pulled into a hotel outside Reykjavik’s […]
The American Southwest – March 2016
There was no better place to think about life, death, and the American condition than on the roads of the great West.
The American Southwest – November 2015
For some, an American road trip is a journey down the iconic Route 66, or a pleasant drive through the countryside of the Atlantic seaboard, complete with quaint, perfect little towns and rolling hills. However, it was the desert scenery of the American Southwest that captivated my imagination. For me, the Southwest was a magical […]
Faces of the DPRK
Faces of the DPRK by Yunchen Tian is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.