[ articles i've written ]
Stories About Roads
"Capitalist Roaders" (about cars and roads in China ), New York Times Magazine, July 2, 2006. "The Checkpoint" (about the West Bank ), The Atlantic Monthly, March, 2006. "Peru's Long Haul: Highway to Riches or Ruin?" National Geographic, June, 2003. "The World In Between" (a journey along the Texas-Mexico border), Outside, December, 1994. full article "Trucking Through the AIDS Belt," New Yorker, August 16, 1993, reprinted in Best American Essays 1994, ed. Kidder and Atwan (Houghton-Mifflin, 1995), and Literary Journalism, ed. Sims and Singer (Ballantine, 1995). full article
Other Stories
* favorite pieces "Wild Things" (about a trip to the Peruvian Amazon), Travel & Leisure Family, September/October 2006. full article *"Backstage Man" (about Stanley Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones), Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2006. full article "Get Lost" (about driving and GPS navigation), New York Times Op-Ed page, December 14, 2005. full article "My Life as a Guard" (about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse in Iraq), New York Times Op-Ed page, May 7, 2004. full article "Animal Magnetism" (Galápagos Islands), Travel & Leisure Family, Spring/Summer, 2004. "Ministering to the Enemy" (essay), New York Times Magazine, October 12, 2003. full article "Prisoners of Hate" (about the murder of defrocked priest John Geoghan), New York Times Op-Ed Page, August 28, 2003. full article
* "In the Land of Guantánamo," New York Times Magazine, June 29, 2003. full article "The Points That Prisoners Can Make" (essay accompanying photographs of shanks), New York Times Magazine, July 21, 2002. full article "Behind Bars with 1,000 Male Convicts" (about a female corrections sergeant), New York Times Magazine, September 9, 2001. full article "Cry For Me" (Bariloche, Argentina), Gourmet, May, 2001. full article "Costa Azul: Gringos in Paradise," Travel & Leisure Family, Winter, 2001. * "Guarding Sing Sing," New Yorker, April 3, 2000. full article
"Shifting Sands" (about Saudi Arabia), Travel & Leisure, March 2000. full article
* "Kadi Diallo's Trial," New York Times Magazine, January 9, 2000. full article
* "The Last Nanny," New York Times Magazine, November 30, 1997. full article
"Winging It" (falconry school), Travel & Leisure, September, 1997. full article
* "Looking for Poppa's Alaska," Travel & Leisure, July, 1997. full article
"Border Vigilantes," New York Times Magazine, May 11, 1997. full article
"Truth & Betrayal in the Editing Room," New York Times Magazine, March 30, 1997. full article
* "Hacking" (about a hatchet murderer turned software entrepreneur), Wired, August, 1996; reprinted in Minnesota Monthly, in two parts, under "Making a Killing," September and October, 1996. (Won Minnesota Press Association award for best feature writing, 1996). full article
"Great Lakes," Travel & Leisure, August, 1996. full article
"Out of the Blue" (Cousteau Fiji Island Resort), Travel & Leisure, February, 1996.
"First You Fall" (learning to snowboard), Travel & Leisure, March, 1995. full article
"The Long Road to Timbuktu," Travel & Leisure, February, 1995.
"Eve in the Garden of Aspen," New York Times Magazine, January 1, 1995. (Anthologized in The Last World: The New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells, Morrow, 1997). full article
"Ski Buff," Rocky Mountain Magazine, Winter, 1995.
"Skiing, Incorporated" Rocky Mountain Magazine, Fall/Winter, 1994.
"Hey, Mom, Can We Go Through Customs Again?" Rocky Mountain Magazine, Fall/Winter, 1994.
"How Much Is That Marmot in the Window?" Rocky Mountain Magazine, Summer, 1994.
* "Cowboy Christmas" (rodeo cowboys in Utah and Montana). full article "Learning the Ropes" (a passage through bareback riding school). full article
"Hot Wheels in the Canyon" (mountain biking in Canyonlands), Travel & Leisure, May 1994.
* "Christie Picks a Mother," New York Times Magazine, May 8, 1994. full article
"United States of Asylum," New York Times Magazine, September 19, 1993. full article
"Urethane Love" (Camp Rollerblade), Outside, July, 1992.
"Mysore Butt" (mountain biking in India), Gentleman's Quarterly, December, 1991.
"Domestic Diplomacy" (Henry & Jessica Catto), House & Garden, March, 1991. "Falling for Zimbabwe" (Victoria Falls Hotel), House & Garden, December, 1990.
"They Fly Horses, Don't They?" Sunday Herald Colour Magazine (Melbourne, Australia), October, 1989; reprinted in Diversions, March 1997, and Grand Tour: The Journal of Travel Writing, Spring, 1996.
"The Biggest Chill of All" (reunion of 70s dope smugglers), Smart, July-August, 1989. "Nuclear Protest, By the Book" (Marilynne Robinson's Mother Country), Outside, June, 1989.
"Welcome to the Pit" (portrait of the desert mining town of Trona), California Magazine, February, 1989. "The Aspen Idea and the Fate of the Meadows," Aspen Magazine, Summer, 1988.
"Latin America Face to Face," Washington Post, May 17, 1987. "A Cooperative Without Borders," Grassroots Development, Vol. 9, 1985.
"Busing Without Tears" (court-ordered desegregation of my high school), Denver Magazine, December, 1981.
"Busted in Boomtown" (hoboes), Denver Magazine, November, 1981.
* "Finishing" (the final hour of my coast-to-coast bike tour), Bicycling, May, 1981. "A Morning With Pops" (California hobo), Amherst, Winter, 1981.
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