One morning on Ko Chang, Thailand, while sitting by the sea and preparing to breakfast on a pineapple pancake and a pineapple shake, I read a puzzling line in Simon Winchester’s book Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883. Winchester … [Read more]
How A Hitchhiker Answered A Prayer In The Jordan Valley
It’s not everyday that you stand on the side of a highway, a car pulls over, you get in, and moments later the driver says you’re an answer to prayer. It was November 5, 2010, and up until this car stopped, the day had been full of … [Read more]
What Fortune-tellers Cannot Predict
In his book A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East, Tiziano Terzani recounts a scene in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in which he is at a fortune-teller’s house, sitting in a dark room lit by an oil lamp. Over the door and written in … [Read more]
Connected To All Outside The Airplane Window
Travel long and far enough and over time you’ll have looked out several airplane windows. Through the oval frame you will have seen the glaciers of Alaska and the rice fields of Bali, the Pyramids of Giza and the temples of Bangkok. You’ll have gazed … [Read more]
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