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Slate Magazine - Sep 23, 2008
After some time driving around the Mongolian countryside, I hit upon a great way to make new friends. It was simple: Draw a line in the dirt, paw the earth a bit, and wrestle to the first fall. Call me primitive, but …
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - Sep 22, 2008
Dispatches from the front lines of travel. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - Sep 22, 2008
I had wanted to go to Mongolia for years. When you travel around the world, you rarely meet Mongolians, but you're always running into things they did. In the Middle East, it's a massacre here, a ruined fortress there …
Slate Magazine - Sep 9, 2008
Finding family in northern Michigan, 6,000 miles from home. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - Sep 8, 2008
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America started with a hunch and a conviction. The conviction was the easy part: that despite drive-time radio and the nightly news and the Sunday paper, despite all the books …
Slate Magazine - Aug 26, 2008
My plan changed and, frankly, for the better. A train is far more energy-efficient than even a Prius, and my trip could be just as spontaneous, given Germany's extensive high-speed train network. Buoyed by these …
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - Aug 25, 2008
While zooming by a field of wind turbines, traveling on a train from Amsterdam to Bremen at 200 kilometers per hour, I suddenly realized that I was experiencing turbine envy. [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - Jun 4, 2008
Parks, reserves, and wildlife refuges dot the northern coast of Honduras like a string of emeralds, starting in the west at the Barras del Rio Motagua National Park, tucked away on the Guatemalan border, and reaching …
Slate Magazine - Jun 3, 2008
Not so much swimming as hovering, I slipped into the school of sharks. There were 18 of them, some as long as 8 feet. "These are big girls," the dive master had warned us; many were pregnant and thicker than usual …
Slate Magazine - Well-Traveled - May 8, 2008
Juan Marichal is the first baseball player from the Dominican Republic to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which makes him the country's baseball patron saint. He lives in Santo Domingo in a sprawling house …