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Baedeker's United States 4/5/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I didn't know where to start.
The German bookseller Karl Baedeker wrote travel guides in the late 1820s, and started publishing his famous Baedeker Guides in the 1850s. The last was published in...
To Shake the Sleeping Self 3/7/2021
Reading time: 5 minutes
Hesitation
I admit it.
My patience for Christians is short. I therefore harbored misgivings about To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins - a story in which the author rides a bike 14,0...
Adrift 2/25/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
Shift those expectations
The author is not lost.
The back cover copy even says so: "Meet Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu: self-professed travel enthusiast. (...) She is not lost. She is not queuing up to...
The Sex Lives of Cannibals 2/17/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
Paradise...?
It sounds incredible.
In the mid 1990s, J. Maarten Troost's girlfriend Sylvia is offered a job on the atoll of Tarawa, the capital of Kiribati, an island nation in the middle of the...
Two Shelves, One Book 7/21/2020
Reading time: 2 minutes
I promise you, I understand.
People would rather eat lead paint chips than talk about literary theory, but I need to discuss an issue which brushes up against the theoretical. I will not be serv...
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Some basics
A brief biographical sketch
Travel
Pardon the saccharine and the obvious, but travel is everything
France
France deserves its own section
Reading
The bullshit of daily life? I'd rather read.
Music
Let me take you back
Television
I watch a lot more television than movies
Soccer
The only sport that matters
Food
As a travel writer, I have to talk about food
Dumb stuff
You will not feel smarter after reading this
Minimalism
Trying to live simply
Other Interests
I've only driven a Ferrari once
Get off my lawn
A few brief rants
