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...

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