Daughters of the Springs
“I came to Weeki Wachee to sound the mystery of the mermaid, to find danger and sex and darkness and maybe hear my own deeps echoed back.”
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The Reinvention of America
An optimistic argument for the United States.
Who Killed Tolstoy?
A trip to the International Tolstoy Conference to investigate an unsolved murder.
The Story of Symphony of the Seas, the Largest and Most Ambitious Cruise Ship Ever Built
How to create a floating city.
Loch Ness Memoir
A trip to Scotland and an investigation of enduring belief.
“I remember reading about the deathbed confession, and how strangely sad it made me, even though I had not, at that point, believed in the monster for years. How much sadder, I wondered, would it make those who still believed in the existence of a monster in Loch Ness?”
King of the Ride
On the road with the world’s greatest hitchhiker.
Why Would Anyone Kayak Across an Ocean — at 70?
Aleksander Doba has spent a great deal of time alone, naked and blistered, aboard a very small boat in the middle of the ocean. It is his favorite thing to do.
Hawaii's Last Outlaw Hippies
They’ve built a hidden society in a state park. Among the haole squatters of Kalalau.
Get Schooled in the No-Nonsense Art of Survival
Learning to live in Earth’s coldest conditions.
When You’re a ‘Digital Nomad,’ the World Is Your Office
A global network of live-work spaces is springing up to serve this new breed of millennial wanderer.
How New Zealand Made Edmund Hillary, the Man Who Conquered Everest
The origins of an explorer.
The Disaster Tourist
Inside the world of dark tourism, where for just $2,500 you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.
“I am Here Only for Working”
Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.
You Blow My Mind. Hey, Mickey!
A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.
Disneyland with the Death Penalty
On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.
Some Kind of Calling
How a Colorado ranch taught the author to sit still.
My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)
The author didn’t plan to write about that 2014 trip through the Grand Canyon. Then he died.
Meltdown
The writer travels with his father to Iceland and Greenland.
The Blind Traveler
On the roamings of prolific blind explorer James Holman.
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A Pilgrimage of Sin: Booze, Bombs, and Hookers in Islamic Thailand
A travelogue through the contradiction-rich and predominantly Muslim Southern Thailand.
Lord of the WASPs
Life on an isolated island utopia.
Unlearning the Myth of American Innocence
On coming to see your home country the way the rest of the world does.
Naked Truths
A first-timer’s adventures at a nudist camp.
The Ideal Iceland May Only Exist In Your Mind
“Last August, I found myself wrung out and miserable over the state of the United States—the vitriol of the presidential election, the deep chasms of reality where we all seemed to find ourselves. I wanted to get the hell away, but not just away. I wanted out. I wanted nothing that resembled where I was coming from. I wanted everything new.”
The Ghost of Capablanca
Chess in Cuba.
