On Saturday, I had the absolute pleasure of meeting up with a couple of old friends and more than a few new ones at the first ever Fly Broth...

On Monday, I announced that I'd be hitting a Grand Tour of Guatemala and Honduras next month, using frequent flier miles I'd accrued...

Photo by youngrobv Because of a bureaucratic bottleneck involving my Brazilian work papers, I'm not heading down to Brasilia for anoth...

...and I'm free the first week in February. Where should I go? (I'm limited to the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central A...

The comparison is overused, but with London and New York City being the pillars of global culture and finance, as well as the launchpad and ...

From my unplanned, surprise weekend in Chicago—architectural gem and friendly metropolis:

Through a combination of one-time tip-offs and dogged research, the universe (and the economy) conspired in my favor to send me traipsing ro...

First, the itinerary: The initial flight schedule I posted last month included some pre-round-the-world flights and some planned, but at th...

Yesterday, I wrapped up a two-week jaunt out to California, Washington State, and Oregon, for no particular reason other than to meet up wit...

With the close of the school year two weeks ago came the close of four years in Colombia: an era of discovery and disappointment, growth and...

Photos from my favorite city in the Spanish-speaking Americas, Caracas: Fly Brother welcomes your views. If this post hit the spot, plea...

This is the last installment of the Bogotá/Caracas trilogy. I'm now back home in Florida, and between getting settled, resting up, seein...

So, I was blind-sided by a ridiculous amount of paperwork and test grading over the last couple of weeks, which reduced my reading time to n...

All the pieces of the puzzle . Behold the itinerary* for my upcoming round-the-world jaunt (click image to enlarge), touching six continents...

They say Caracas es Caracas, lo resto es montes y culebras —Caracas is Caracas, the rest is just shrubs and snakes. With serpentine highway...

Originally published in the Orlando Sentinel , May 2007. The Middle of the World is a dusty place. And actually, there are three Middles of...

The title “Third Largest City* in the World” never moved beyond the abstract until I found myself circling over the Valley of Mexico on the...

The last post of a 4-part series on my year-end jaunt through the Promised Land, aka Brazil. After an early-morning flight back from Rio to ...

Part 3 of a 4-part series on my year-end jaunt through the Promised Land, aka Brazil. Slightly sore from having crammed seven people, plus d...