Category: Literary Travel
(Part of the Austin Rocks series of posts by a local about things to do and see in Austin, Texas) If you’ve had your fill of live music, yummy …
Stone circles, standing stones: they evoke mystery, a sense of spirit, and a sense of connection with the past. A sense of wonder, too: all the more reason you …
I looked at our room in Mexico City. Two narrow beds crowned with flat pillows, slid side by side. A window. A miniature wastebasket. That was it. Our door …
The sun had already set, but there was still light oozing through the surrounding forest. My car’s headlights illuminated the mangled historical marker where Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow …
New England, the far northeastern part of the United States, is a place of contrasts — big cities and small towns, seashores and lake shores, ponds, rivers, forests, cutting …
Mark Twain had already seen much of the world’s great cities at the time he announced his favorite: Hartford, Connecticut. It was 1868, the year after he’d traveled through …
It’s hard to believe now, but once, thanks to a major gold rush back in the 1860s, Hokitika was not only New Zealand’s biggest town but also had it’s …
I’m tiptoeing over to the edge of the rocky cliff in the most bizarre place I’ve ever been when a Taiwanese dad and his 12-year-old son approach me. The …
Gray wooden bookstalls, complete with yellow awning and gingerbread columns, line the softly sloping and tree lined Calle de Claudio Moyano, a pedestrian walkway that skirts Madrid’s Retiro …
About half way through any trip, no matter how delightful, there comes a time when you’re just ready to be home. That mid-trip feeling can last just a moment, …
When I first entered the Black Forest, I found it very familiar. Which was startling, since I’d never been to that part of Germany before. Nor have I ever …
Las Vegas, as a city, has long been a reliable creative irritant to the sensibilities of travel writers who work in a genre called “literary”, “narrative”, “nonfiction-creative”. The city’s …