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Queer Nude Neocolonialism

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On April 5, 2023
I've been chewing over this New York Times piece from last week ever since it was published. Basically, it's a story of personal exploration by a lesbian who discovers that there is a beach in Oaxaca where she can be nude around other queer people....

Finally

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On November 8, 2021

The U.S. fully opening the borders for fully vaccinated travelers and not allowing people in who are not vaccinated makes all the sense in the world. Frankly, it took too.

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On Overtourism

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On August 24, 2019
We live in interesting times, if nothing else. At the same moment in which climate change is threatening to destroy human civilization and most of species on the rest of the planet (and by threatening, I'd say quite likely to do so in the next...
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Service Trips

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On December 24, 2015
Your (or your children's) service trips, or voluntourism, basically do nothing to help the world's poor and are essentially all about the people of the wealthy world feeling good about themselves, not to mention getting some good selfies. People on such short trips usually don’t...

Native Americans on Route 66

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On November 21, 2014
I admit I've always found the fascination with Route 66 a bit perplexing, since it's really just another road that, outside of New Mexico, does not really go through our most fascinating landscape. Even in New Mexico, that's a less than compelling road as far...
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