I’m about to embark on a very interesting travel experiment. I’m going to be joining a three-day tour of California with a Japanese tourist group. For many years I’ve said that one of travel’s great rewards is that it allows us to see our homes with new eyes. Well, this is another way of doing [...]
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I’ve been watching snippets of the Olympics over the past two weeks, and what struck me last night, amid all the fanfare and farewells, was that the Olympics represent exactly what i love about travel: People from different places, cultures, and backgrounds meet and get to know each other for two weeks; the world is [...]
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Well, the 17th annual Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference has come and gone in a five-day blur. The first day was actually a “pre-conference” day-long writing workshop I led exploring the wonders ancient and modern of San Francisco’s Chinatown. That was a great adventure and I think we all learned that you don’t [...]
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One of the highlights of my year, the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, is coming up this Thursday through Sunday. Every August about 120 students and 30 faculty gather in Corte Madera, near San Francisco, for four days of workshops, panels, events and informal gatherings. It’s like summer camp for travel writers and [...]
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One of the things that struck me virtually as soon as I got off the plane in Tokyo on my recent trip is the way the Japanese package everything. From traditional sweets to bento lunch boxes to elegant clothing to — well, just about anything you see on a typical day in Japan – the packaging that [...]
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Since my last appearance here I’ve been to Japan for two weeks, heli-hiking in the wilds of Canada for a week and now I’m in New York for the weekend. Crazy! I’m about to leave for a tour of Columbia University with my family. The trips have all been illuminating and wonderful in their ways. [...]
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