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The crappy side of travel writing
Let 2023 go down as the year I shat my pants in the Four Seasons Bangkok. Sure, a lot of other stuff happened this year - some of it good, some of it not so good. I detached the ACL in my knee, for example, and did other assorted bodily damage while snow skiing in...

At Post Office Bay in the Galapagos, you need patience – but no stamp – to deliver a card
I’ll be lucky if the postcard I mailed from the Galapagos Islands last week makes it to its intended destination in a year – or ever. It’s part of the charm of tiny Post Office Bay on Floreana Island, where for more than 200 years people have been leaving letters,...

It’s snowing in Colorado and you should buy lift tickets now
Snowflakes are flying in Colorado, y’all. I sat down to coffee with a group of representatives from three Colorado ski resorts this week, who reminded me that now’s the time to buy lift tickets. “The earlier you can sort out plans, the cheaper it’s going to be,”...

Free admission at Texas State Parks this Sunday
You can leave the big bucks behind when you head to a state park this Sunday. To celebrate Texas State Parks Day, officials are dropping the day-use admission fee. That means you can hike at Pedernales Falls State Park, where recent rains have bumped up flows down the...