Las Garzas de San Blas
Las Garzas de San Blas (from Mexico, a Love Story, Seal Press, 2005) San Blas, it’s jungle out there I had heard that Playboy Magazine called San Blas, Mexico, a dump, not worth the effort it took to...
View ArticleDelighting in Dungeness
Winter is Dungeness crab season; it’s time to get cracking. By Camille Cusumano Original article published in Via Magazine. Consider a mollusk such as the escargot. It would be nothing but a garden...
View ArticleSavoring Patagonia
Dark peaks, many still cloaked in snow, rag the horizon. Besides the druid-like towers, a formation called the Cuernos del Paine rises above Lago Pehoé, one of many lakes we passed, whose waters seem...
View ArticleProtected: A Family Reunion in Sicily
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View ArticleAlaska’s Chilkoot Trail
Gold! Gold! Gold! the headline goaded. A listless nation heeded, trading its financial doldrums for its well-worn frontier spirit. From all corners of North America, ordinary people turned toward the...
View ArticleBuenos Aires Bares Notables
The bares notables (notable bars and cafes) of Buenos Aires are best accessed at this site.
View ArticleVIA Magazine archived stories
These are links to some of the many travel stories I wrote for VIA Magazine from 1988 through 2006. Some info may not have aged gracefully – do check all contact info. MENDOCINO, CALIFORNIA...
View ArticleVisitors’ Guide to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Where to eat, stay, tango, dance, walk, and more in Buenos Aires, Argentina. From an American who lived, loved, and danced there.
View ArticleI could’ve danced all night
Original article here. [VIA Magazine, 1999, photo 2007, Kent Wade, Buenos Aires] On a nine-day cruise across the Atlantic, swinging to the Big Band sound of Tommy Dorsey was a breeze—especially for...
View ArticleRock & Wood Art of Sierra Nevada
It's catnip for the muse of a writer to get lost in this level of life, sans mots. An artist acquaintance introduced me to wabi sabi (see below) and it inspired me to see with new eyes. Every writer...
View ArticleThe Magic of Tango
Tango is like no other partner dance for many reasons, two of which are its ready punctuation by silence and pauses. So much happens in the stillness, that the movement becomes a segue to the next...
View ArticleCaptive Backpacker Suffers Helsinki Syndrome
I was taken prisoner for six nights and seven days by a Sierra Club Local from southern California. I am now suffering from Helsinki Syndrome. I fell in love with my captors. They marched me up tall...
View ArticleTrick & Treat
You never know who you will run into in New Jersey. That's Dancin' Will with me. When we met on a transatlantic cruise from New York to Lisbon in 1998 I had no idea we both had Jersey Shore...
View ArticleTango on Virgin Redwood
In the eight years of my tango addiction, I have tangoed on many types of floors and surfaces, indoors and outdoors, from Paris to Prague, New York to San Francisco, Buenos Aires to Montevideo. But I...
View ArticleTango in Nairobi, Africa
Oh, how many people told me "You won't find tango in Nairobi?" They didn't know Mario Ruggier, a native of Malta and naturalized Canadian who came by way of Geneva two years ago to work in Nairobi in...
View ArticleFog Catalogue
This is a work in progress and has been approved by the International Council on Fog Fog is divided into three greater categories according to the degree of Moisture (wet or dry), its Source-— from...
View ArticleOregon Coast, Los Angeles Times
Read the original article here. August 26, 2012 FLORENCE, Ore. — My mind drifts back to Ken Kesey’s 1964 novel, “Sometimes a Great Notion,” as my friend Rob and I drive west from Eugene to the Oregon...
View ArticleFuraha (Joy) Guest House, Nairobi, Kenya
Furaha Guest House in Gigiri, Nairobi is wonderful.
View ArticleProtected: True North, Alaska Bachelor Auction
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View ArticleWilderness Discount!
If you couldn’t make the book launch parties for WILDERNESS BEGINS AT HOME, Travels with my Big Sicilian Family, or books were sold out, here is the promo code and link to let you purchase the book for...
View ArticleTango with a Stranger, NGT
Now and then in Buenos Aires, I have the urge to rub against a man I’ve never met. When that occurs, I usually go to La Boca, the barrio that throbs with the afterglow of Italian immigrants who
View ArticleThe Dharma Buddies of Auroville
Here’s a story about my visit to Auroville, February, 2018. Serenity personified.
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