Time travel exists and I’ve done it.   It’s hell on children, and I’m not just talking their sense of time, their days and nights mixed up—I...

We planned to train to “camp,” or, more precisely, to train to the city of Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, known more simply as Ubon, site of a ...

It’s kind of odd, driving into the landscape of memory with another person.   Not the Freudian, nightmarish world of the subconscious, but ...

Just as we’re leaving Laos, my wife is getting more confident with her broken Lao. I can tell because she’s starting to tell her story in br...

How can one hope to say anything more or different about crossing a body of water? The metaphors are already legion: crossing the Red Sea, ...

Make no mistake, Vientiane is bigger than Savannakhet, despite what Savan folks might say.  Vientiane's got monuments; it's got muse...

Nothing says falang (westerner) quite like french fries.  I admit, these little suckers tasted absolutely delicious, complete with ketch...