If I could time travel, I probably wouldn’t choose Japan during the late 15th-...
If you ask me, Route 66 is the best long road trip in America....
There’s nothing like the beckoning open road, especially when there’s nostalgia involved. And there’s...
The University of Hawaii Press picked up my blog, If Japanese Buddhist Temple...
If you’ve visited Buddhist temples in Japan, chances are you passed through their entry...
I’m a descendant of immigrants. Most likely you are, too. When the Declaration of...
As the author of Frommer’s guides to Japan for many years, I’ve inspected more...
I first visited Smitty’s Market, in Lockhart, Texas, about 15 years ago. Weaned on...
Anyone who knows me knows I would never travel to a renowned wine region...
If there’s a road trip more internationally famous than Route 66, I don’t know...
I started this website in 2011, after the Great Tohoku Earthquake unleashed a...
The golden years of the Roman Empire span only some 500 years, from 27...
The first time I participated in Zen meditation, at a 1980s retreat for...
I love festivals for their sheer exuberance, for their street food, and for the...
I became enamored of Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1980s, while living in Tokyo...
It’s only 200 miles long, but Wisconsin’s Frank Lloyd Wright Trail covers more than...
I was living in Tokyo in the 1980s when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture,...
With its powerful front claws, spindly legs, antennae, and hard shell, the American Lobster...
Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls, and...
You can whip between Kyoto and Hiroshima in less than two hours on the...
People always ask which Japanese city is the most important to visit, and my...
I didn’t appreciate what I was seeing as I walked the stone streets of...
The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous sake...
Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting forth...
