bit.ly/3iExxzY Paso, a pasta paradise. My latest for SFGATE thanks for the edits Freda Moon !

Every adventure should end with a meal. Some of my favorite pieces from 2021 are these 'meals worth the trip' from Julie Tremaine Julie Brown Davis Alex Schechter and Georgia Freedman.

A fire damaged this beloved CA byway. What remains? My latest for AFAR Media ~ bit.ly/3dsixS5

Get a more intimate view of the Sierras. bit.ly/3hflsik

the food ain't bad either!

LOVE this piece on the effects of overtourism (and the role travel media plays) in Maui

Your daily reminder that Indigenous people predated Columbus by — wait for it — 23,000 years. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

A great piece here on where travel writing is now, where it might go, and the strange journey from Granta 10 to Granta 157 by Tom Chesshyre (ignore the title of the article!): thecritic.co.uk/too-woke-to-tr… ⁩

Trying to be more sensitive about travel writing in 2022. And what better place to start than this essay on Mayas, medicinal plants, and that time I had cancer. thanks Sebastian Modak for the fantastic edits! bit.ly/3fblOpA

love this barren road trip in western Namibia nytimes.com/2022/01/17/tra…

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rereading this & I keep getting stuck on the word ‘civilize’ n.pr/39XMfQ8

in my latest for Vox I followed a fourth-generation Appalachian herbalist into the forest. thanks to Lavanya Ramanathan for the thoughtful edits! bit.ly/3wYr20l

A teacher who was murdered in the Uvalde shooting last week, and her husband who died the next day of a grief heart attack, had their funerals today. Then 3 active shootings happened simultaneously tonight, and we had to decide whether to feature all 3 or focus on the deadliest.

wonderful piece on the complexities of “solving” homelessness

For The New York Times I spoke to Director Chuck Sams, the new head of the National Park Service (and its first ever Native American director) nyti.ms/3QLTdbH

In this week's The New Yorker, I write about India's unprecedented heat wave. "The heat has created a rise in physical, psychological, and social symptoms," one doctor told me. "We have damaged the environment so much. Now the environment is damaging us." newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

fantastic investigative piece on why America’s roads are becoming unsafer, for drivers and pedestrians.

I planned your trip to Vegas! nyti.ms/41mhiKK