A few minutes ago, I found out that one of my favorite writers, Roger Ebert, passed away at the age of 70. He’d battled cancer for the last several years, and last night posted what turned out to be …

This here is going to be the last post in this series. I’ve covered eight weeks of travel, and now I’m in the process of building a new life in a new city. Corrinne and I are holed up outside …

Lady Liberty. Hey girl.   Eight weeks out of the country. Four months on the road, total. I landed at JFK airport in New York and it just felt great to be home. It’s been years since I left the …

Rarrr! It’s interesting that one of the best days of my trip would open with me filled with regret and existential questioning. Why, I wondered, did I think it was a good idea to take a 7 a.m. flight out …

Greetings from San Jose, where I’m tucked away in a pension next to the Justice Department, watching the daylight get soft and sitting in the cool air of Costa Rica’s capital. It’s very quiet here, and that’s the way I’ve …

In order to leave Nicaragua today, I was going to have to catch the 7 a.m. boat up the river. There’s less service on the weekends, and if I missed that one, the next one was at 2 p.m., which …

Last night, I ended up at a little place called Restaurante Orquidea for dinner, where I sat alone on the upstairs terrace, looking at the moon over the tin roof of a store, shining its light on a palm tree. …

This was a long day, even by the standards of the previous two, but a strangely relaxing one. I think I’m finally getting the hang of traveling again, and of course this would happen on the final few days of …