The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey Wins a 2026 IPPY Award
My travel memoir The Patchwork Cloak of Kamal Bey: An East-West Memoir has won a 2026 Independent Publisher Book Award, also known as an IPPY.
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The Forgotten Mountain Ruins of Antalya
A guide to four little-known ancient ruins near the city of Antalya in Turkey, hidden in the nearby Taurus Mountains: Trebenna, Kelbessos, Typalia and Neapolis.
Continue reading →A Short Travel Guide to the Ancient City of Termessos
The ancient city of Termessos, perched high in the Taurus Mountain Range, remains an unexcavated and mostly unvisited ruin hidden in the shadow of Turkey’s other popular ancient sites.
Continue reading →The Living Great Lakes by Jerry Dennis
Jerry Dennis’s exceptional travelogue, The Living Great Lakes’ captures the beauty, fragility, and mystery of North America’s majestic inland seas.
Continue reading →Hiking in Ikaria, Greece
The island of Ikaria, Greece, is a hiker’s paradise, but bring your wits and route-finding skills with you if you plan to walk its rustic village trails.
Continue reading →The Psychology of Survival
Laurence Gonzales’s book Deep Survival argues that our psychology plays a huge role in our ability to avoid and survive life-threatening situations.
Continue reading →Moose Factory and Moosonee: Explore Magazine Travel Feature
For the summer 2017 issue of Explore magazine, I wrote about a rail journey to the twin towns of Moose Factory and Moosonee, Ontario, Canada.
Continue reading →Hiking the Bruce Trail
A season of hikes along sections of the Bruce Trail system in southern Ontario showed me the worth of exploring my own local nature spots.
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