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• Elsewhere & Elsewhen

  Elsewhere & Elsewhen Because everything was new to me I walked almost everywhere.  I dawdled, reading the signs in shop windows.  I smelled the air coming out of open doors and even up from the sewe...

• Elsewhere & Elsewhen: on the Learning of Languages

  My enthusiasm for foreign languages far exceeds any talent I have for them, but I always try to arrive at a new place with at least a runnin...

• Elsewhere & Elsewhen: This Enterprise, explained

  Although I call this a travel blog, I realize it doesn’t look much like other travel blogs, so let me explain what I am doing here.  This ...

• Elsewhere & Elsewhen: on assignment

  The next trip I am planning to write about is to Nicaragua. I had my first assignment from a magazine and thought this was going to be a fin...

• Elsewhere & Elsewhen: Travel writing, bloggery & poetic prose

  I wonder if it is entirely accurate to criticize travel blogs as poorly written, as Theroux does.  True, some are indifferently written, bu...

• Elsewhere & Elsewhen: September 2011

  I was crossing the border by bus, from one of those countries that you needed permission to leave.  We had gotten off the bus when we reached the border post and were now standing in line to get back ...