By camping wild, we bypass unloading the luggage, taking off our shoes at the doorstep, and all the other logistics of dwelling in a well-groomed society
Getting a feel for the sliver of green in lower Manhattan that Occupy Wall Street Protesters call home
Putting one’s means of transportation into a box while miles of travel remain is as clever as stepping into a shopping bag and attempting to carry oneself
A recent book only adds to the enduring mystery of a legendary Southwest wanderer
The townspeople ogled the tourist he’d captured. “From America,” the cop boasted, like he’d shot me at 400 yards with a rifle
Travel horizontally in any direction and you see no change in landscape; Siberia remains Siberia from Finland to Kamchatka
Sultan packs me a goody bag with tomatoes, cheese and peppers so hot I can’t even touch them. I suggest paying and she tilts her head back—"not a chance.”
Then, from behind me, came a staccato war cry—“Aaaack!”—as my host sent a boot into the dog’s rib cage
Three-dimensional printing technology can be used in conjunction with the material and energy resources of the Moon to build new spacefaring capabilities
Doorways still lead into cool, cozy chambers where people grilled kebabs, served tea and worshiped until 1952
The truck came by slowly and a spotlight swept the river bottom. "My God—they're hunting me!"
Visitors come for the place and spill onto the beach and pose exuberantly under umbrellas and wrestle with colorful inflatable toys in the brown waves
“That’s the fattest stray dog I’ve ever seen.” A lot has changed here since Mark Twain wrote about the city, but there's still plenty of mayhem
I have my dinner—cheese, a four-pound organic tomato, a sack of figs and a jar of pickled chanterelles—and I’m ready to get lost on the mountain roads
The fountains are a marvel of local social infrastructure; the spouts pour out spring water along almost every mile of mountain roads
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