Category: Travel

Watching the recent events in Afghanistan unfold in the headlines, I’ve been thinking about how important it is to humanize far-away tragic events — and the unique ability of artists to do so.  Picasso’s monumental painting “Guernica” — more than […]

I believe a regular dose of travel dreaming can be good for the soul. Stow away with me to Siena, Italy, in this excerpt from […]

For me, one of the great joys of travel is having in-person encounters with great art — which I’ve collected in a book called Europe’s […]

Earlier this fall, four of us — total novices at long-distance treks — hiked around Europe’s highest mountain. (On the first day, big birds of […]

  Hiking Europe’s Tour du Mont Blanc was a totally different slice of European culture for me: Coming upon a remote […]

While the Tour du Mont Blanc is demanding, it’s not a particularly difficult hike. It’s just long, with lots of altitude gain and loss, and […]

  At 66, I felt a bit like the father of the hiking community when I hiked around Mont Blanc earlier this fall. But the […]

  Today is a profoundly sad day. Russia’s aggressive action is heartbreaking for the death, suffering, and economic turmoil it will cause in Ukraine and, […]