The Mystery of Bulgaria

Published in the July 1999 issue of Egypt Today magazine For a dose of the red tape and helter-skelter services that plague post-communist Europe, head for Bulgaria. The average pack-a-day smoker could outrun a Bulgarian train, and maps seem to be drawn by an...

Lost in Las Vegas

Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian(excerpt published in “Whose Panties Are These?” by Traveler’s Tales) IT’S THE OLD chicken-and-egg question: Are people fat because they come to Las Vegas, or do they come to Vegas because they’re fat?...

Red Rock Nation

Published in Midwest Airlines magazine OUR TIRES KICK up red dust from the dirt road as Arizona’s manicured world of golf courses and strip malls recedes in the mirror and my memory. A flock of sheep, bells tinkling, tiptoes into the road as a Navajo grandmother...