Travel Blog

On Ducks and Dumplings

September 9, 2018

Recent dining adventures in Portland, OR and Vancouver, BC

Indian Briefs #6

February 8, 2014

A not-so-brief catch up on two months of travel.

Indian Briefs #5: Jaisalmer

January 29, 2014

On turning fifty in the Thar Desert.

Indian Briefs #4

January 26, 2014

I wrote three blog posts about the first two cities I visited, and then there’s been nothing since, though I’ve careened through nineteen more cities and towns since I left Agra.

Indian Briefs #3

December 27, 2013

Indian Briefs #3: Adaptation, Head Trips, & Agra.

Indian Briefs #2

December 26, 2013

Part two of the blog catch-up.

Indian Briefs #1

December 26, 2013

The first (I hope) of some brief snapshots from India. If all goes well, I’ll get caught up a bit the next few days while I’m here in Jodhpur.

24 hours in Delhi

December 9, 2013

Delhi. I’ve read about it in guidebooks. I’ve discussed it with others who’ve been here before. I’ve absorbed its depictions in books and films.

Destination: Richmond

September 19, 2011

The latest instalment in my effort to visit Vancouver’s neighbourhoods as a tourist.

A small restaurant just outside the city centre. At a table in the middle of the room sits a beefy young man with t-shirt sleeves rolled up, a pack of Marlboros and a Zippo on the table in front of him. On the wall behind him, a poster, one of those old black and white…