by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel, Uncategorized
“You come one? Bravo! Bravissimo!” the old woman said when I checked into the Malyovitza lodge. I had traveled all day on Bulgaria’s winding country roads to reach this small resort town in the Rila mountains. Sofia, Bulgaria’s capitol city, is a...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Published in Natural Home, Winter ’02 Picture a house designed by John Muir and the Brothers Grimm, and you’ve got Stonehenge. Stepping through a boulder cavern, you spill out into a multi-tiered living room 23-foot-high. An 80-ton granite boulder forms...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Published in the July 2002 issue of Alaska Airlines magazine Yongdingmenwai. Yongdingmenwai. Yongdingmenwai. Great. I’ve just arrived in Beijing, I don’t know where I am, and no matter how I pronounce my hotel’s street name, it comes out all wrong....
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
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...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
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?...
