This piece was inspired by the many conversations of my travels. The distant coastline falls beyond the view of the pier from the boundary of…
Am I an alcoholic? Some might say that if I have to ask myself this question, I probably already know the answer. I sit here…
I will never forget the screams of those floating Germans. There I was, belly up on a scorching tube, drifting down the guts of the…
It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…
I’m in the hostel common area and they’re all here. There’s the German solo traveller in sensible outdoor clothes; the bubbly Scandinavian girls who embarrass…
It’s midday and I’m standing in a parking lot across the road from Warner Bros. Studio. Around me I can see families, couples, groups of…
I sit in a rustic wooden house adorned with ornaments from South Asia in the middle of the wilderness in Bulgaria. It is a chilly…
Photo by Karl Fredrickson. I’m an atheist. It’s never normally hard for me to admit that. But last time I settled myself in a city overseas,…
Cover by Takahiro Taguchi Dotombori, 10 pm. The street was neon-drenched and the soundtrack was synthetic saccharine J-pop. I stepped into a bar. “Irashaimase!”, shouted…
I walk into a hostel in Italy and the common room is filled with people for the free dinner. I scan the room quickly. There…
Right now, I should be in absolute shock and wonderment. I’m sitting comfortably in the rental home of three elderly Japanese people, who have just…
I just missed another friend’s wedding. A friend I have known since the age of 10. She sent me the invite months ago. Absolutely no…
