Note: Wix you dirty old friend. Your UX still confounds me. I wrote the first draft of the post below for a Community Education Writing...

Since returning to Portland I’ve been notably neglectful of this blog. On one hand this is entirely logical. Instead of spending my time...

It’s been almost six months since I returned to Portland. I have finished the trip of a lifetime and coming home was not easy. Since...

I’ve been back in Portland now for over three months now. Belatedly, I have decided it’s time for me to put together some reflections...

I am incredibly lucky for many reasons, but one of them is that I have spent a lot of time in Western Europe. Somewhere else on my blog I...

I am just over 6’1, with most of my height in my legs. As a result, most airline seats, particularly on budget airlines, are a tight...

The original plan for my time off had four parts: SE Asia, Central Asia, a brief two week jaunt in Europe, and about a month and a half...

I think the best time to reflect on the sights and experiences of Central Asia is on a plane heading from Istanbul to Lyon, France. It...

Before I left the United States, a frequent topic of conversation was whether I was going to admit to being American while was out of the...

If you look at a map (and know where you should be looking) Kyrgyzstan appears as a fairly small country. Compared with its neighbors,...

It is probably obvious to most people but one of the strange things about traveling for an extended period of time is that life back home...

I recently spent almost two weeks volunteering at a hostel in the southern Kyrgyzstan city of Osh. This wasn’t something I had set out to...

Note: Many of the photos in this post are in slideshow format. Be sure to scroll through if you want to see them all. I’m drafting this...

I’m writing this post from Osh, Kyrgyzstan. It’s a place is different in so many ways from SE Asia that I have some distance and...

I give partial credit for my interest in traveling to the PBS TV show “Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?”, which I started watching...

One of my sabbatical goals is to learn how to surf. I’ve been vaguely intrigued by the sport for a long time. Growing up on the West...

I’ve been traveling for about 8 weeks now and have a week and a half before I leave SE Asia for the Stans. If I’m doing the math right...

I’ve spent the past month and a half in SE Asia and am now on the Indonesian island of Lombok by way of Bali. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed...

For those of you who follow my trip on the social medias, you’ll know that about ten days ago I spent a night at a homestay at a Hmong...

Happy Reunification Day from Hanoi, where the country is celebrating the American withdrawl from Saigon and the resulting reunification....