Moving with Beijing

Street food, crowded subways, and finding my rhythm in a city of 20 million people.

5 Destinations I'd Return to Tomorrow (No Questions Asked)

Pink Dolphins, Anacondas, and a Full Moon Swim

Fire, Glass, and the Things We Keep

Cooking My Way Back to Beijing

How food, memory, and an old blog became a book

A Place that Asks Less

The City I Would Return to for a Pork Chop Cooked on a Grate Over Charcoal on the Sidewalk

The Beijing I Still Miss

Six-yuan noodles, a gum-wrapper repair, and finding home near the 5th Ring Road

Why I Always Go Grocery Shopping When I Travel

Back Roads and Bluegill

Brakes Not Required

Crab Island

How My Guatemala Trip Went To Crap

When Google Maps Told Me to Walk on Water

Find Your Whimsy

Three Forms, Fifteen Stamps Later

Spreadsheet or Serendipity

Machaca on the Fly: A Different Kind of Costa Rica Fishing Trip

When Life Gives You Rain, Look for Waterfalls

My Only Regret in Costa Rica

The Quetzal Chase

The Birds Stole the Show

A Paper Map and the Search for a Piña Colada

17 Kilometers and an Unexpected Horse

Land Rover Rides and Elephant Sniffs