I start every morning by murdering the small colony of ants that moves into the water kettle during the night, rinsing them down the...

“I can’t wait to see the lions,” my colleague said, clinging to the roof of the van in excitement. She was visiting from India, and her...

I often joke that on my 60th birthday, I’ll buy an expensive set of binoculars and a birding guidebook, then let my inner birder soar....

One of the things I’ve learned from shooting wedding photos is how to edit and compose on the fly. Unfortunate exit sign in the church?...

The smell of boiling acid wafted up from the bubbling technicolor sea below, burning my eyes and lungs and making me cough. “Come to this...

“You go on ahead, maybe I’ll just wait here,” I said, eyes on the rocks looming above us. It was day three of our travels through...

In the introduction to the travel section of my other project, I use the sentence “you can step slowly through these experiences and...

After the wedding and the briefest tours of London, I rented a car and drove out to Wales with a couple of friends. Along the way, we...

There are so many sides to Barcelona, which is perhaps true of many coastal towns. My favorite part of the city is its walkability, and...

I’m not even sure where to begin with Barcelona, it may very well be my favorite city on earth. So far. I didn’t have any particular...

It seemed a shame to fly in and out of Venice without ever actually going to Venice, so on my last day in Italy, I took a train into the...

It’s funny how Uganda has ceased to be an adventure over these past two years. Bustling markets and overcrowded taxis and tropical storms...