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One Year After Pakistan

BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Two years ago yesterday, I was awakened in Islamabad by an editor in Singapore calling me at 6 a.m. to tell me President Obama was going to make an […]

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Reaching the Ends of the Earth at the End of the World

Hello all! Long time, eh? Well, sorry about that. I was at sea when the world supposedly ended. Perth is the most isolated big city in the world. To the […]

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Singapore: Chasing the Wind

SINGAPORE—I used to like Singapore. I really did. It was a soothing, calming, well-mannered tonic to the chaos that was Pakistan. Whenever I visited, Singapore was like a gleaming, neon beacon […]

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After Four months in Bangkok, Farewell

And so, after almost four months in Bangkok and Thailand, it is time for me to move on. I do so with a great sadness mixed with my usual restlessness. […]

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Two if by Sea…

BANGKOK—So how does one travel around the world without taking a plane? Well, with a great deal of patience, for one. A tolerance for long bus rides doesn’t hurt. But […]

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The Prologue is Past

I’ve now been in India for about six weeks, and I’ve come to realize that much of what has happened up to this point—fleeing Pakistan, leaving Reuters, landing in New […]

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Antipodal Nodes

View Larger Map I’ve been reading Seth Stevenson’s book on overland circumnavigation of the globe, “Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World”, and he brings up an interesting […]

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