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Piroshki: Clandestine notes from Nizhny Novgorod (formerly
Gorky), Russia. Memories of childhood summer trips to Shioya (a village near Kobe,
Japan).
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Piroshki: Clandestine notes from Nizhny Novgorod (formerly
Gorky), Russia.
A close shave at the baths, crashing a wedding, and
hanging out with the Kurds in From
Istanbul to Van: A Turkish Traverse.
To be a Komodo
Ranger is not Easy: Searching for dragons, riding atop
bemos, and bonding with a monkey named John Lennon in Flores
and Komodo, Indonesia.
Christmas Island,
1999: Fin de millénaire notes from the world's
largest atoll.
Denizens of the
Eldorado Youth Hostel: Waiting for Godot in Khomasdal,
Namibia.
Remembering
Baobabs: A travelogue of Senegal disguised as a meditation on
the melancholy.
The Long Road to
Venice: How to ditch a car and survive highway robbery in
Italy.
An essay on The English Patient: The Geography of Desire.
(Originally published in The San Juan Star, 1997.)
Freetown restaurant
guide for Peace Corps volunteers in Sierra Leone (circa
1988).
A bit of ancestral research in Kumamoto, Japan.
Life as an expatriate recalled in a letter to my
child as she turns 24.
Notes from Colombia in 2025.
Impressions of Guatemala and Chiapas, Mexico: A
brief senryu journey.
Freetown
Bicentenary, 1987, in pre-civil-war Sierra Leone.
Waiting for boas at a cave in Mata de Plátano, Puerto
Rico.
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