Highsmith's first Ripley book needs a warning label, it's like a 250-page anxiety dream, read it in one sitting then had to break out my emergency air-travel benzos

Last spring, I pack muled for my 73yo mom on a four-day backpacking trip between the historic Appalachian Mtn Club huts of New Hampshire's Presidential Range — a wonderful walk, despite some rain, and my latest story for the The Saturday Evening Post.

saturdayeveningpost.com/2024/04/hiking…

To all you multitasking skeptics out there I present my Istanbul taxi driver — simultaneously scrolling through soap opera episodes, prayer beads, and gps navigation while still occasionally managing to look at the road

If hypothetically I found a 20-foot conga line of fuzzy caterpillars crawling snout to tail through the forest in Turkey what does it mean, please help

One of the funniest people alive, who traded much bantz with me when I worked in-house at Lonely Planet's London office, needs to access new treatments to defeat his brain tumour. Please help, if you can. You've got this Daniel Fahey. ♥️
Dan Fahey gofund.me/dec6eea8

There are just two cultures: 'fresh air is a cure-all' and 'too much fresh air will probably kill you'

Paid my respects to Hürrem Sultan 👑🙌

'apparently there was an incident'

There's often a gaping chasm between what is pleasurable and what is interesting, and a whole lot of travel writing falls right off the edge

Obsessed with the Canadian-made 'Vertmont' maple syrup being sold in Turkey

My piece on #Bali , influencers, overtourism and the tourist tax is out (you may or may not hit a paywall): inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…

Thanks Jen Rose Smith for the intro and Emma Featherstone for the commission