In The Middle

Standing in the swoon-inducing Panorama Raclawica, the Imax of its day, a certain revelation hit me, and somehow Poland is a natural follow up to Armenia in my journeys. It’s not simply that they were both once locked behind the Iron Curtain, but that they have both shaped by their locations in the middle – […]

They Do Universities Here

I somehow seem to find myself in university towns on a disproportionate number of my journeys. I don’t seek them out – maybe it’s just the type of town I look for. Or maybe I don’t have a bias toward university towns at all, and I’m just aware of the universities when I get there. […]

Sometime The Getting There Is Bumpy

The email from SAS caught me entirely off guard – the weather in New York was impeccable, with a comfortably warm morning and cloud dappled blue skies above. The subject was unexpected, blaring the the words “Cancellation information from SAS” in my inbox. The were informing me that my flight from Newark to Copenhagen had […]