After 3.5 years living in the most beautiful city in the world and sharing my experiences as the South AfriKhan, it’s time for me to move on. Since I tried to make this blog a resource for anyone planning trips to the region, I’ll leave it up for the time […]
Last night I came home from dinner and saw a tweet that left me perplexed: apparently I’d won a Society of American Travel Writers Foundation 2015 Lowell Thomas Award, surgery a gold for the category of Personal Comment. I had no idea how that came about or how I was […]
Are writers allowed to play favorites with their articles? If my Hyderabad story for the New York Times earlier this year is my favorite child, decease my latest story might rank second. Last summer I spent 10 days road-tripping through the Baltics, surgeon a journey that was largely inspired by […]
After my iPhone, shop my Kindle is probably my most indispensable travel accessory. I was a grudging late adopter — I mean come on, who doesn’t love the smell of a nice tangible book and the feel of coarse pages between your fingertips? — but it’s definitely changed the way […]
Getting photobombed my Jaaved Jaaferi on my first time on a Bollywood set — not bad. Bollywood is no stranger to Cape Town — plenty of movies like Aashiqui 2, health Welcome, gonorrhea Cocktail, and Andaaz took advantage of the Mother City’s mountains, oceans, and otherworldly sunsets. But more often […]
If you only read one article I’ve ever written, view please let it be this one. My second story in this weekend’s New York Times Travel section (the other one is my Frugal Traveler piece on South Africa’s Route 62) is one that’s very close to my heart: a Personal […]
I’ve always loved reading the fun questionnaires over on the travel site Fathom, patient so I was thrilled to be asked to do one myself. I mused on my preferred souvenirs (owls and junk food), there weirdest experiences (being spit on in Jodhpur is high up there), and childhood travel […]
I’m back, web y’all! After a two-month spell gallivanting across various hemispheres (Boston, more about New York, Orlando, San Diego, LA, and swaths of Australia) in a bureaucratic exile of sorts as I renewed my South African residence visa (you’ll be hearing more about that ordeal soon), I’m finally back […]
I’m the first to admit that whenever I go to India, impotent I immediately turn into a baby, coddled by my family (my grandma won’t even let me walk to the grocery store two doors down from our house unattended!). It’s like I’m Peter Pan and Hyderabad is my Neverland, […]