For Beijing and me, it was love at first sight, so I was surprised when I nearly fell victim to a taxi scam in the basement of Capital Airport a few weeks ago, upon arriving...
Gangaji is an American teacher and author. She practiced in many different traditions including Zen, Vipassana and Tibetan Buddhist meditation before meeting her teacher Sri H.W.L. Poonja, also known as Papaji, in India in 1990....
Moving house is said to be one of the most stressful things you can do in a lifetime and yet some of us move constantly (military, travelers, those with a job who relocate frequently) while...
With over two million people living in the borough, Brooklyn is New York City’s most populated part of the city—but strangely, a lot of visitors and many Manhattanites don’t know much about it. Brooklyn’s big...
Like every writer who contributes to We Blog the World, I'm addicted to travel. I want to experience "everything" when I travel—culture, nature, personal contact, art, food. But I've found myself most transported by the...
I was eager to begin my journey from Guilin to Yangshuo almost immediately, much as I expected I would be. The former doesn’t have a great reputation, apart from being a gateway to the latter.
Still,...
While I loved New York City before I had Augusten, experiencing the NYC after kids is even more fun. Not only is there a host of activities to enjoy that I never would have known...
After my flight to Siem Reap flight landed, I headed toward to town center with one thought in mind: Why, after nearly a decade and with hundreds of millions of dollars in tourism revenue gained,...
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