Author: Antonia Malchik
The drum of traffic assailed my ears constantly. The cars’ exhaust collected in pockets of stench that seemed to race around the city competing with noise for a shocking …
Liz’s post about a Wild Food Festival in New Zealand made me hungry for something outside of the local fare here in upstate New York. I’m certainly not drooling …
It is unfortunate that this classic travel book by award-winning British journalist and novelist Libby Purves is not in print in the US, because American travel writers could learn …
Whether you’re tripping through London, Tokyo, or Boston, no visit to a city is complete without traveling the metropolis’s subway system. An underground acts as a city’s circulatory system, …
(Please note that the people and language referred to here, Piraha, has a tilde — a little squiggle — over the final ‘a,’ but said squiggle is nowhere to …
Former President Roosevelt’s country home on the Hudson River, Hyde Park, has seen a surge in tourism numbers in the last year. Two factors coincided to regenerate interest in …
Two days ago I had my first ever experience doing a video Skype chat with a friend who’s on the road and trail trekking for a Lonely Planet guidebook. …
Every year around this time, for some reason unknown to me, the thought of space travel bangs away on my imagination. Last year around New Year’s I wrote about …
As my time zone eeks toward the turning of the year this week, the world seems to be set to start 2009 off on a very bad foot. Russia …
Two days ago, while volunteering for the local library, I was chatting to a woman about what her grown-up children are doing now. Her oldest, it seems, had gotten …
With the gift-giving holiday frenzy bearing upon us in no time flat, many people are stuck between awareness of the worldwide recession and its effects, and the trend over …
Tomorrow’s American Thanksgiving holiday will see millions of turkeys roasted, billions of pounds of cranberries boiled with sugar, and a cornucopia of root vegetables baked, broiled, stewed, creamed, and …
