Travel Links
Travel: Vietnam Today
Half a century later, my husband and I decided to visit the country we had so long ago feared. When I told our friends that we were going to Vietnam I could see the question in their eyes. Why, of all places, did we want to go there? They had painful memories, too. And to be honest, I was concerned about how Americans would be viewed all these years later. more »
Exploded City, From the Future
We are made to see these places that for most of us never existed in our consciousness, and how they connect to ourselves, in concrete terms of war or policy and in abstract terms of fear and empathy. In these moments, the variables of distance, speed, and time that keep us from knowing these places through our own experience collapse. more »
Giftshopping at an Eco-friendly destination
The combination of floral enameled products with newly-popular-again Indigo and Batik items as well as kurtas for mothers and children make this an appealing site. more »
Alaska: "You don't land at the end of the road without a reason"
Kristin Nord writes: Drifters, gamblers, adventurers, dreamers and an astonishing roster of
wildlife. This is the last great frontier, to a great extent, and it
lives up to that billing with its unfolding stories. more »