International Trips

“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

The Unbearable Lightness of Memory

 have only a handful of photographs of my father. One taken shortly after I was born shows a man, already old, wearing what looks inexplicably like a North Korean army hat cocked at a ridiculous angle on his head, wearing the half smile of someone who doesn’t want to be photographed and holding a massive fish in one hand. It’s winter in the photo, and a cat, little...

It Ain’t about the Fame; It Ain’t About the Bitches: A Visit to Munich

My dominant memory of Munich may not be the majestic town hall in the city center, but it might just be the aggressively earnest rapper who was helping promote a vegan event and fair in the square in front of it. His passion for his cause was perhaps unmatched by his skill as a lyricist, though, as during the hour I wandered around the square, he performed the same...

The Contempt of Airlines for Their Passengers is Staggering: @Icelandair Edition

The contempt airlines seem to have for their passengers is staggering. We pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the privilege of flying on increasingly packed flights with an ever-decreasing list of amenities on board only matched by the growth of various fees and charges that complete the frustration of commercial flight. In exchange for those hundreds of dollars...

Photos from Lithuania, July 2017

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