Driving Around Sri Lanka We spent some of our first days together (those few days we had) riding up and down the southern coast of Sri Lanka on an old motorbike. We…
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Brussels, Belgium There are few weekends better than those that include smoked salmon and cream cheese bagels in bed, B-movies, red wine in the park, Sam Cooke records, and (of course) the…
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Lisbon, Portugal I went to Lisbon a few Aprils ago. I spent my days there simply and quietly; it rained a lot of the time. Every night I ate a communal dinner…
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Manitoba and Saskatchewan, CanadaI was born and raised in the prairies of Canada, in a city famous for writers and hockey and snow. By the time I was 18, I had left,…
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Runaway Bay, JamaicaWith airlines like Jetstar and Air Asia and Easyjet, some days it really takes all of my willpower to not leave all of my responsibilities behind and become a full-time…
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Koyasan, Nara, and Kyoto, Japan And now I’m living life in a series of countdowns: this many days until I go to Tokyo again, this many weeks until I go to the…