A road trip through Alberta’s spectacular national parks — Banff, Jasper and Waterton — and only one city (Calgary). I feel like a fish out of water […]
Searching for Stalin’s Boots in Budapest
Discovering Budapest through its classical art and contemporary museums, the latter a remembrance of its Cold War past. […]
Santorini without the crowds
For a few days, Santorini was mine. It was like being in on a secret that made me smile — and no one had an idea why. […]
Even in miniature, France is larger than life
Why would I want to see a miniature Paris when I am already here…in life-size Paris, in real France? Because miniatures are so damn cute, that’s why! […]
The Paris I love
Like Hemingway said of Paris, “And then there was the bad weather,” at the beginning of A Moveable Feast, the […]
Where I’ve been wandering
So, Macedonia makes it the 50th country I’ve visited in my lifetime. This post should really be titled “How I […]
Istanbul: A story told in two continents
I didn’t fall in love with Istanbul until I was about to leave it. And by then, I was so completely enamored of the place that I would come back two months later […]
Untangling Bohol
The Chocolate Hills of Bohol look like someone dropped 1,700 geological formations that look like Hershey’s Kisses… five million years ago […]
A short post about Hobbits
One Sunday afternoon in September 1998, a New Line Cinema film executive knocked on the door of a farmhouse in […]
Because this is Boracay
In the morning, I open one eye and see my cousin on the bed next to mine reading a book. I don’t know where I am. That is never a good sign for the night before […}
Architecture, love, loss & liberty
Memory is a theme that finds its way into Daniel Libeskind’s architecture. People move on. They rebuild. And one day they are able to look up toward the sky again […]
A journalist’s Warsaw
I have been in a mall in Warsaw for two hours and I haven’t seen a single Asian, either as […]
The 38th Parallel
To this day, when I hear Blind Melon’s No Rain, I think of the 38th parallel — the demilitarized zone […]
Chasing Kafka in Prague
Kafla’s “landscape” was Prague, his hometown. And in the Jewish Quarter, on Dusni Street, he spent most of his time wandering about and getting inspired and writing his stories […]
How I found my muse in Florence
Of all the nine muses, all I really needed was one — to recover, to rewrite, to reclaim the contents of my missing flash drive. But really, it was to recover myself […]
In. f*cking. Bruges.
I waited for years to get to Bruges after watching the dark comedy In Bruges. The film is beautifully written, […]
Two GPS and still lost in Poland
My friend Gautier is on the phone with Andrej, whose flat in Krakow we are renting for the night. He’s […]
Things a Chicago local wants you to know
Randy Hunt has lived in many cities in the United States. A software developer based in Chicago for Discovery Channel […]
The light of Angkor Wat
There is an old folk tale that goes if you whisper your deepest secrets into a hole on an old […]
A girl named Penny in Delphi
The Temple of Apollo at the most famous of Greece’s sacred sites, the Oracle of Delphi. (Photos by @iamtanyalara) Delphi […]
