Category Archives: Travel

The Flight from Hell: Air Baltic

Posted on August 4, 2011 by author

I am flying from St. Petersburg to Moscow today and, though I am not running late, my Armenian cab driver must think so, because my he is hammering down the highway like he’s Dale Earnhart, Jr. on the backstretch at Daytona

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As American as Apple Pie, Kiev, and Rock n’ Roll

Posted on July 18, 2011 by author

I have walked down two flights of stairs under Kiev’s city center and past a giant bouncer into what used to be a Soviet-era nuclear fallout bunker. 

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Death March: This is a Vacation?

Posted on July 10, 2011 by author

I am desperately clinging to the face of a rock wall 300 vertical feet above the Grand Canyon, and I am in mortal fear for my life.  I have reached this point after climbing, in kiln-like temperatures, up a tumble … Continue reading →

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