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Real Travel Soon to be Real-er 19 Jul 2013 | 12:47 am
After 11 award-winning years and nearly 100 issues, I say goodbye to my Real Travel column in National Geographic Traveler (the last one is below). No worries, though--there will be more real travels ...
Memory, Shanghai, and My Traveler's Heart 21 Mar 2013 | 07:11 pm
In my latest column for National Geographic Traveler, I learn that sometimes you can't go back home again, even if you've only been gone for six months. (Click here for a larger-type version.)
I, Lady Complainer: A Memoir of My Trinidad Calypso Season 27 Sep 2012 | 04:26 am
AUTHOR'S NOTE: An oldie from my archives--this article appeared in the 1990s, in a magazine that no longer exists. My calypso career as "Lady Complainer" began in 1984 and continued until 1986. Ah wha...
The Havana Hat Ladies 20 Sep 2012 | 06:29 pm
There's a piece about traveling to Cuba in this week's New York Times Magazine. It reminded me of a piece I wrote for them on the same subject in 1994. I flew to Havana from Miami four times between ...
The Three Must-Have Travel Languages 15 Apr 2012 | 07:18 pm
The other day a fellow traveler wrote to ask me what I thought were the most important languages for a traveler to have. I'm not much for lists (hate all those magazine cover lines that reduce the sub...
Winning the Gold 11 Nov 2011 | 01:10 am
It's always great to be recognized by your peers, but this one is especially sweet. Today I found out that my article, "Ghosts of Hong Kong", won the 2011 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold prize, a...
The Grand Parade of Pigs 17 Sep 2011 | 03:43 am
The deep, dark secret of Hong Kong's world famous eating culture is this: Nobody likes Chinese banquet food. That's the topic I tackle in this month's National Geographic Traveler magazine--my articl...
The Jazz of Travel 7 Sep 2011 | 09:52 am
Welcome to all Frugal Traveler fans who've landed on this page from the link in Seth Kugel's well-written and thoughtful article about women and travel. As some of you already know, I was the NYT Frug...
Bathing In Fukushima 2 Sep 2011 | 02:44 am
Part 2 of my series on traveling in post-disaster Japan was the most difficult to write. I went to a hot springs resort in Fukushima, called Noji Onsen, and unexpectedly ran into some of the most unlu...
Ah, Ah, Earthquake, Ah 1 Sep 2011 | 04:28 am
The first installment of the three articles I wrote about traveling in earthquake-devastated Japan, for Slate.com came out today. Writing these stories about Japanese who are trying to make sense out...
