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Do You Know the Way [from] San Jose? One good thing about traveling alone, with no particular schedule and flexible destinations, is that the whole concept of being “lost” or “late” is mostly a non sequitur. What might look to others like a wrong turn can be quickly rationalized More...
Tikal, Guatemala: A Glimpse of the Americas in 900 A.D. Some big piles of rocks in a Guatemalan jungle may change your thinking about "American" history. In the year 800 or so, Tikal was a city of nearly 100,000 Mayan people, set in the northeast part of what is now More...
Zurich: The Swiss Just Call it an “Army Knife” In July 2010, in a lake just south of Frankfurt, Scott Humphries, Shane Merz and I joined about 1800 others and jumped into the water for the start of Ironman Germany. About 25 minutes after the start of the More...
Sydney: World Upside Down Australian sundials are numbered backward. If you want to navigate your way around Sydney, it might help if you understand why. Since America is well up in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun’s daily path for us is More...
The Way Out West: San Francisco and Santa Cruz, CA I was a week early and about a billion dollars short of being able to compete in the America’s Cup sailing race, which started Saturday in San Francisco bay. (I also lack the requisite sailing know-how). But the fog parted More...