I love, love, love Buenos Aires, with the food and the wine and the people and their outrageous accents, like characters in a Fellini film. Here I’m sitting at a beautifully laid table, awaiting the pouring of the vino. And there it is! Wine has left the bottle....
Fantastic fresh foods everywhere we went, for so little money – this was what I found all over Cambodia. Bright red peppers spicing up veggies, cooked so lightly it was eating vegetables the way God intended. Lemongrass and greens flash cooked in oil and added...
I contacted a friend-of-a-friend who lives there as soon as I arrived, and she signed me up for a bike ride with a bunch of expats. We pedaled out of the downtown Phnom Penh area past traffic that is charitably described as terrifyingly chaotic. Motorbikes are the...
The sun beats down here – if you’re in the shade, it’s muggy but it’s fine. But the sun is so freakin’ hot. Motorbikes rule this city. Cars drive slowly because they’re automatically at fault if a rider gets hurt. At stoplights the...
There’s my sister, Lady Liberty, and me! I felt so close to the Big Green Goddess after our visit to her island. Kyna had never been to New York, and I’d never been to see the Statue of Liberty. We took a few days between her posts and went to soak up some...
Oh, Mexico. You never know what you’ll find. We had rabbit tacos at a roadside restaurant, and outside this car was sprouting… something. I had had a PERFECTLY AWFUL experience at a conference in a nearby city, and returned to the capital with my mood...
