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2026 31

  1. Character Select
  2. Democracy in America
  3. Integrated Circuits, AI, and Wallabies
  4. Quick Update
  5. A Trip to the ER -- and a Public Service Message
  6. The Aboriginal Issue
  7. Riding the Aussie Dog. Again.
  8. What makes Australia Australia?
  9. Perth (Australia) -- The Beautiful Lonely City
  10. In praise of the Midwest
  11. Aah, the Machinations of Life
  12. Two Interviews: An Author and a Painter
  13. Reading Moby Dick
  14. Estonian Day Dreams
  15. Las Vegas and a McDonald's Convention
  16. Walking to the World Cup, and Other Distractions
  17. Empty Revolution: A Walk From Ulm to Augsburg (Germany)
  18. A Library of Distractions
  19. Immigration and Assimilation
  20. Denver: Trenton with Thin Air?
  21. The Dirtiest Dog
  22. My Seoul Girlfriends, and the Korea Most People Miss
  23. Japan: America's Best Ally?
  24. Walking Kumamoto
  25. America and Public Disorder
  26. What Holds America Together?
  27. Walking Duluth
  28. Is it Really So Much Better Now?
  29. Not Walking Chicago
  30. Engineering as Humanity's Highest Achievement
  31. Modern life is good actually

2025 42

  1. Walking, Wittgenstein, and God
  2. Walking New Jersey (and Staten Island)
  3. Why are Americans Unhappy?
  4. Walking Surrey England
  5. Some final China thoughts, a short political rant, and my upcoming England walk
  6. Asian style materialism
  7. Walking Zhengzhou (China)
  8. Walking Hong Kong (Kowloon, really)
  9. Walking Kunming (China)
  10. Four Years of Walking the World
  11. Small Acts of Good, US as Third World Country, and How Culture Changes
  12. Walking Michigan City (Indiana)
  13. Final thought on Australia
  14. Alice Springs, Townsville, and crossing the Australian outback
  15. Twenty seven hours on the Aussie dog
  16. Sydney, the suburban paradise
  17. First impressions of Sydney
  18. Heading to Australia, the new Swimmer, and a small story of a criminal clown
  19. Destitution Fair
  20. Thoughts from buses across America
  21. Free buses? And returning to Brazil.
  22. McDonald's around the world
  23. How to build the perfect city
  24. In praise of Japanese small, Hokkaido as Wisconsin, and pachinko memories
  25. Walking Hokkaido: From Sapporo to Tomakomai
  26. Forty eight hours in Montreal, Logistics of Long Walks, Bad Delta, and Turtles
  27. Is it Euro-poor, or Ameri-poor?
  28. A retreat to Chiari, and then pain. Lots of pain
  29. Walking Lombardy: Milan to Brescia
  30. Very low tech high tech travel
  31. The unbearable lightness of Korean cute
  32. Walking Xi'an (China)
  33. Walking Tashkent (Uzbekistan)
  34. A German Officer (and Jew) in 1930s China
  35. Beijing versus Shanghai, Pastoralism as key to civilization, and why I travel (again)
  36. Walking Beijing
  37. On Cultural Relativism and some books I've recently read
  38. The Divine Engineer of Ancient Sichuan
  39. Oh No! Again
  40. The Hero and other Cultural Characters
  41. Fields of my ancestors
  42. America, the beautiful

2024 37

  1. Walking Warsaw
  2. The meaning of, and in, McDonald's
  3. Why and how to walk 200 miles
  4. Various things from a last week of travel
  5. Walking Japan (again): From Fukuoka to Nagasaki
  6. A hundred hours in Shanghai
  7. Walking Phnom Penh
  8. Walking Bangkok
  9. Walking Vientiane (Laos)
  10. Seoul stopover
  11. No, the world doesn't hate America
  12. Walking Faroe Islands (part two)
  13. Walking Faroe Islands (part one)
  14. Walking Mongolia beyond Ulaanbaatar
  15. Stories from America (Part 2)
  16. Stories from America (Part 1)
  17. A Stalled American Dream
  18. A brief foray into Dallas, missing Kampala, and some thoughts on over-tourism
  19. Walking Nairobi
  20. Leaving Kampala
  21. Walking Kampala (Uganda)
  22. Note from a fifteen hour flight
  23. Europe is Healthier than US
  24. Who are you really? (part one)
  25. Walking the Rhône Valley (Part 2)
  26. Walking France: Avignon to Pont-Saint-Esprit
  27. A few interviews and a call for questions
  28. Walking Buenos Aires
  29. Why I came to Buenos Aires
  30. US is better than Europe!
  31. More thoughts on the Netherlands
  32. Walking Belgium: From Antwerp to Brussels
  33. Walking the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to The Hague
  34. Walking Phoenix
  35. So what makes a city more walkable?
  36. Oh No!
  37. Some additional thoughts about Sofia

2023 39

  1. Walking Sofia (Bulgaria)
  2. Why the US can't have nice things, part 2
  3. To my subscribers. A quick note.
  4. Walking South Korea's Jeju Island
  5. Walking Fuji
  6. Interview with a young Mongolian
  7. Walking Darkhan (Mongolia)
  8. Walking Japan: From Akashina to Fuji
  9. Walking Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)
  10. I could live in Seoul
  11. America does not have a good food culture
  12. Walking England's Coast Part 2: From New Romney to Brighton
  13. Walking England's Coast Part 1: From Dover to New Romney
  14. Some thoughts from a long summer of travel
  15. Walking (South) Salt Lake City
  16. Playgrounds and Manhole Covers
  17. A pointless little Japan story
  18. To my subscribers
  19. Walking across Japan, part 2: A retreat to Niigata
  20. Walking across Japan, part 1: From Tokyo to Takasaki
  21. Walking Jakarta
  22. Walking Dakar, part 2
  23. Walking Dakar (Senegal), part 1
  24. Somethings I like about Germany
  25. Thick Travel
  26. Why the US can't have nice things
  27. Walking Görlitz (Germany)
  28. Walking the Rhine Valley: From Duisburg to Cologne
  29. Walking the Ruhr Valley: From Dortmund to Duisburg
  30. Some thing I really like about Taipei
  31. Reading the World
  32. LA without a car (part 2)
  33. Walking Taipei (part 2)
  34. Walking Taipei (part 1)
  35. Walking South LA
  36. Some things I especially like about Amman (and Tel Aviv)
  37. Walking (kind of) Tel Aviv
  38. Pigeon Keepers of Amman
  39. Walking Amman (Jordan)

2022 40

  1. Some things I really like about Bishkek
  2. Walking Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)
  3. Some things I like about El Paso and San Antonio
  4. Thanksgiving thoughts
  5. Twenty hours on the Dog
  6. Walking El Paso
  7. A small journey of the sanguine
  8. Walking (and busing) San Antonio
  9. How to Travel
  10. Things I really like about Istanbul
  11. Walking Istanbul
  12. Walking Myrtle Beach
  13. Even more things I like about Hanoi
  14. Housekeeping for subscribers
  15. Walking Liverpool, Leicester, and a little bit of London
  16. Walking across England: From Wakefield to Hull
  17. Walking across England: From Manchester to Wakefield
  18. Walking across England: From Liverpool to Manchester
  19. A few of my favorite things about Hanoi
  20. Walking Lạng Sơn (Vietnam)
  21. Riding the Bus from Hanoi to Lạng Sơn and back
  22. Walking Hanoi (part 2)
  23. Walking Hanoi (part 1)
  24. Walking Seoul (part 3)
  25. Walking Seoul (part 2)
  26. Walking Seoul (part 1)
  27. Art in America: Pigeon Keepers of NYC
  28. Walking America: Bridgeport to New Haven (CT)
  29. How to Walk (12 miles a day)
  30. To my Subscribers (part 2)
  31. Why I Walk
  32. Among the Half-Masked
  33. Walking Lima (part 2)
  34. To my subscribers
  35. Walking Lima (part 1)
  36. The Cats (and Dogs) of Istanbul
  37. Photographing America: Holyoke
  38. Walking America: Jacksonville
  39. Walking Kyiv
  40. Walking America: Washington, DC (Anacostia and Alexandria)

2021 12

  1. Walking Bucharest
  2. Walking America: Albany (again) and Watervliet (kinda)
  3. Walking America: Albany NY
  4. Walking America: Florence SC
  5. Walking America: Orlando
  6. Walking America: Breezewood
  7. Walking America: Buffalo
  8. Walking America: Indianapolis
  9. Walking America: Binghamton, Johnson City, and Endicott
  10. Walking America: Springfield, Chicopee, and Holyoke
  11. Hopes, Dreams, and Intentions
  12. Coming soon