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June 2025

Bug Tourism
Life grows upon life at these latitudes. You can meet a creature beneath pretty much every leaf. And there are a lot of leaves.
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Travels with Books
A fortnight into the journey, I arrived in a new place and asked the guesthouse manager if there was a bookstore in town.
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City in the Fog
“Fog this morning with showers; dull and dreary,” the forecast read.
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Two in the Bush
For an hour I sat in the shadow of the verdant leaves as bitterns and kingfisher squawked and squabbled, soaring into the lake to take an occasional…
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May 2025

How It Feels in Hanoi
Any enquiry into new place that doesn’t ask what work means to its people misses a crucial point.
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Where You Were at Night
A while back, I borrowed a friend’s motion-sensor trail camera and tied it to various tree trunks around the yard.
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A Squiz on the Sugarloaf
You can hardly tell that there’s a pad there. The bush closes over, a welter of green fronds, blades and canes. Cross-hatched brambles, spine-bearing…
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In the Shadows of Mountains
The first time I ever got to see that enormous view, I sensed that you could pass a whole life making curious and challenging in-roads into this blue…
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April 2025

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