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...
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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...
There’s no place in the world like Venice. Nothing even comes close. That Venice...
You can zip between Tokyo and Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train in about...
The first time I saw a woman cooling herself with a Japanese folding fan,...
I don’t remember much about my first visit to Granada as a year-abroad college...
I first went to Japan to write some travel articles and ended up staying...
When it comes to the Underground Railroad in Lawrence, Kansas, misconceptions abound. Take the...
