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When I escorted my first group of graduate students on a European tour over two decades ago I prepared myself as well as I could for what I anticipated would…

If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again I won’t go looking any further than my own backyard. Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz (1939) After 25 years of escorting people…

The customary salutation in greeting a Chinese is nihao (sort of “hello, how are you”). But Chinese often greet one another with the phrase chi fan mei ah (have you…

China is dispatching hundreds of thousands of civet cats, who have the misfortune of being fingered as the little varmits who brought Sars to the country. It matters little, since…

It’s Code Orange at the Orange Bowl. Zillions of flowers are dying on stupid floats up at the Rose parade. And there’s an astrologically ominous number hanging over the next…

Some subscribers might have already seen this piece, which recounts a trip to SE Asia in 2002. Angkor What?! After 27 years of being a tour escort and guide I…

Today, a little something from the Travel Archives from 1988 (Yes! That is me and my hair in that photo): And Now for a Little Dirty-Dancing in the Desert One…

Hey, all those signs saying “Bush Go Home!” “Bush the Butcher,” “Get out of Iraq,” and such that we have been seeing in TV the past couple of days –…