Category: travel

• Project Blog It: “It is the hour of departure…”

  Sep 12

  The hour of departure is not the departure. It is the anticipation for the leaving that remains to come. It is the last minute rushing around the one instant that… more ›

• Two-Track Tuesday: Ancient Heart

  Aug 26

  It was the summer of ’89, while working at the General Cinema in south Arlington, that I discovered Tanita Tikaram. Because of my weekly pay, I was visiting music shops… more ›

• Project Blog It: Strawberries

  Aug 8

  To contribute to Project Blog It today, I decided to post an excerpt from a book I’ve been writing over the past few years based on the journal I kept… more ›

• Bliss

  Jul 11

  In an attempt to show my dearest (and some of my oldest) friends some love and support, I decided to jump on their bandwagon a bit this Friday and post… more ›

• Istanbul 05: The Church

  Jun 17

  Procopius said is best: So the church has become a spectacle of marvelous beauty, overwhelming to those who see it, but to those who know it by hearsay altogether incredible.… more ›

• Tiananmen

  Jun 4

  I was in Beijing just a few days after the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was still closed to the public for “renovation,” in anticipation of protests… more ›

• Istanbul 02: Travel Journal Except

  May 29

  Friday, May 16, 2008, Hotel Turkoman, Istanbul After what seems and certainly feels like two lost days of traveling across continents and time zones, the beginnings of my third day… more ›

• Istanbul 01: Call to Prayer

  May 28

  Five times a day the call issues forth from the amplified speakers mounted atop the minarets. These days, the muezzin need not bother climbing the steps up the tower. Because… more ›

• Sublime Porte

  May 13

  View Larger Map Just a short trip to Istanbul and an even shorter stop in London on the return flight. I’ll post photos when I get back. more ›

• Whither the Turks?

  Feb 6

  During the forty-six hours I spent in Budapest in the winter of ’96, I befriended another American at the hostel who was traveling the world researching the history of coffee… more ›