Tzukim, Arava, Israel The whirring of the machine as I touch my foot to the pedal brings me back. To my grandmother’s home and her […]
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Okay, Let’s Talk about Israel
View from Old Jaffa, Tel Aviv “If the Arabs didn’t kill me, my wife would.” Bloody hell. Did he just say that? After the split […]
De-Nile, and other Ugandan States
Last week, I visited friends in Jinja “Source of the Nile” Uganda and stayed with them at the lodge they manage. Between playing sharks and […]
10 Hours in Nairobi (Airport!)
Final Destination: Jinja, Uganda—the mouth of the Nile Tuesday, 12 April, 2016—Nairobi, Kenya The New York Times may have all the tips for how to […]
Journeys All The Way Down
Goes into the post office to mail home some books… 30 minutes and 90 stamps later ^^ Once, a great guru came to a small […]
Coffee Culture, Slow Food, and Why Cape Town Has Both
A side alley off Buitenkant Street, Gardens, City Center, Cape Town The first sip is bitter, sour, almost acrid, before my palette adjusts and the […]
Vagabonding vs Bonding: On Staying in Touch
Reunited in Cape Town: Hiking Table Mountain Is it hard to form deep, enduring friendships when you’re always moving around? I get that question a […]
Playing Tourist—Because, Penguins
More tourist-ing on the way to the Garden Route. Sometimes, it’s fun to play tourist in your own town—or, you know, any town.Funny, coming from […]
Cape Town Snapshots
Street art near Assembly, Cape Town. Are these snapshots I share so often an exercise in lassitude or creativity? I’ll admit I write them when […]
Kindness as an Act of Radical Subversion
Where I don’t hitchhike. (C’mon, I’m not crazy!) “I haven’t told anyone this yet—not even my business partner,” said Jack. Two pairs of bluebell eyes […]