Travel Essays

A one-way ticket to Vietnam. A trip so far where I am both a backpacker and an “expat” – where I make friends with the

Six years ago I knew where I was going when I arrived in Shanghai that afternoon. I knew my future for the upcoming four days.

  At Ocean Beach Pier in San Diego. I took a photo here in 2004 on my last day in San Diego. There I was

What time zone am I in again? Where’s the coffee? Am I really at the Moscow Airport (and am I seeing a TGIFridays in Terminal

I left Canada in May on yet another one-way ticket. Here’s what I’ve done so far: New York for a day. Central Park, Koreatown, tacos

Chongqing has a few nicknames: “Fog City” (the polite version of smog city), “Furnace” (that’s more like it), “The City of Mountains” (the term “urban