by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian “”Mojave Desert!” Bill called out from behind the wheel, somewhere in the center of the night. He and I are the only ones awake on this desert caravan to Death Valley, the Green Tortoise’s...
by staff | Jul 24, 2019 | Travel
Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian “How delightful it is, and how it makes one’s pulses bound to get back into this reviving northland wilderness! How truly wild it is, and how joyously one’s heart responds to the welcome it...
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...
