Tag: travel journals

Photojournalist Dan Eldon was stoned to death by an angry mob while reporting a story in Mogadishu in 1993. This was something I thought a lot about, as it …

Last week, I went to the Aperture Gallery to catch the last day of a small installation of Tim Hetherington‘s work.  On display was Diary, an experimental 19 minute …

It had been the sort of travel day where I didn’t think anything useful happened. We’d left Chicago at dusk, on through Indiana and hugging the dip of Lake …

Just like cake goes with coffee and cream cheese with bagels, Dave Fox’s book Globejotting goes with Lavinia Spalding’s  book Writing Away. Sure you could read only one or …

When it comes to keeping a travel journal, I always have the greatest of intentions. Unfortunately, what starts off with a bang usually ends in a whimper around day …

Travel is first about experience, but then, very quickly, it’s about memories.  If you peek in any traveler’s bag, you’ll find the evidence of some habit designed to capture …

Once upon a time…. ….there were three New York girls who decided to quit their jobs, leave their families and friends, and take a year long, around the world …