Wattle Seeds and Witchetty Grubs: Discovering Australia’s Unusual Cuisine
So this is what good luck tastes like. A clod of dirt caught between my front teeth, earthly particles burying my taste buds under the distinctive flavor of ground soil.
Category Archives: Destinations
Up A Mountain Without A Map: Climbing Mt. Parsons
Lost means little when you’re halfway up a rock face, wedged furtively between towers of stone. Every surface looks the same from this angle; no map promises us stable footing.
My partner and I are chasing cairns to the top of Mount Parsons.
Longitude’s Best Travel Books of 2013, #1: Cuban Revelations
Fidel Castro’s mustache instantly attracted Michelle’s attention, but his oratory prowess and political passion piqued her interest soon after.
After reading about the Cuban leader, Michelle will visit his small but proud Caribbean country. And while she’ll travel with more knowledge than most, few books will help her accept those upcoming experiences better than this one.
My Favorite Places: Modern Las Vegas And Old Western Deadwood
Two travel writers, two U.S. cities: things to see and do in our favorite places.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflection
Five…six…seven… the flat stone skips from circle to circle, dancing across an otherwise untouched surface. Rings spin outward like ladies’ dresses, swirling, then subsiding into silence…
Why Fishing Is Like Traveling
But my boyfriend, Hadyn, feels about fishing as I feel about traveling: that it is an act of passion, of reverence, which must be practiced as often as possible in order to feel a legendary moment of aliveness. Both activities share a pull that only the dedicated will ever understand.
Postage Stamp: Bicheno, Tasmania
“Penguin!” Hadyn shouts at every black and white bird on the horizon. Knowingly, he mistakes large gulls for the little local inhabitants that nest along Bicheno’s rocky shoreline. Someone has […]
Too Mutch For Words 