On a bus ride down a dusty road in the West Bank, Middle Eastern pop music blared over loudspeakers, punctuated by the clapping and cheering of the passengers on board. I was heading to a Palestinian village called Deir Ballut, with a group of young refugees; participants in an educational project to confront colonization. We … Continue reading
The sea in Southern Italy deserves its own story. It is breathtaking. Raw. Its jewel-toned azure hits you hard in the chest, even more impressive against the stark limestone cliffs and the bright white light of the Mediterranean sun. From below the surface, it doesn’t shatter the sunlight so much as cut it in a … Continue reading
Writing anything original about New York City is nearly impossible… Just a few weeks into my travels, I was beginning to regret choosing New York City as my first destination. At any given moment, the city has been filled with millions of people, a lot of whom have been creative types who’ve collectively made my … Continue reading
. I learned somewhere, a long time ago, that the Hawaiian Archipelago is the most isolated landmass on the planet. It’s one of those factual tidbits that you read off the inside of a Snapple cap, and tuck away in a corner of your brain for when friends from the mainland come to visit and … Continue reading
“There are no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign.” On my recent trip to Morocco, it was hard not to feel alienated and uneasy. The medina of Marrakesh is an assault on the sense; smells, sights, sounds, and most unsettling—touch. Merchants in the souks of the imperial city are aggressive, grabbing … Continue reading
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