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Green in Dubai’s Desert
A weekend in Dubai – Part 2 — the Al Maha Desert Resort, the Dubai Desert Conservation Reserve and an antelope’s quiet disdain. Excerpt below, and click here for the full article. +++ The towering skyscrapers of Dubai disappear behind me in a haze. The air smells and tastes of sand, even as the taxi whisks past a … Continue reading
Pasadena moments
Back in January, and shortly before flying to Indonesia, I hopped in the car for a final road-trip to Los Angeles. Normally, I’d couch surf, but this time decided to combo the trip with writing a review of the Pasadena’s palatial Langham Huntington hotel. I last time I was in Pasadena was for the Tournament of Roses … Continue reading
Touched by an Untouchable
(After reading the post below, check out my GTG / Reuters article on the same topic) Kathmandu’s smog-choked streets were not helping my oh-shit-I-can-barely-walk-five-step-without-sharp-pains-in-my-left-lung pneumonia paralyzing my forward movement. Fortunately, the antibiotics which I had borrowed from a fellow traveler (on the one and only weekend in 15 months that I had not lugged my … Continue reading
A LEED green hotel for every budget in New Delhi
My eco-hotelier friend Ravi smirked when I asked him for ‘green’ hotel recommendations in Delhi. So I was pleasantly surprised to find not one, but two newly-opened hotels designed from the ground-up using LEED green building standards. And that’s pretty much where the similarities ended. Both were pretty cool, but for entirely different reasons. Whereas … Continue reading
Green Hero: Gili Islands’ Delphine Robbe
Scuba diving near Bali is fantastic, and while researching related environmental issues (coral bleaching, over-fishing, etc), I met many hard-working individuals in NGOs and small businesses doing incredible work. Today, my article about a few of these people was published, and I hope I´ve done justice to their stories, to their efforts. There are actually three … Continue reading
Tale of Two Taj (Mumbai, India)
It’s only been a few weeks, t it feels like I left India a lifetime ago. And there’s no bigger contrast that between Mumbai (Bombay) and Bali – replacing the incessant clamor of car horns with the ever-present crowing of roosters (they apparently didn’t get the memo that crowing is only allowed during the dawn … Continue reading
Bali …
Ubud, Bali (Indonesia) – June 29, 2011 In “Shore Leave” – Star Trek Episode #17, Star Date 3025.3 (original series), Kirk and the Enterprise crew begin to see strange sights – whatever they’re thinking suddenly manifests in reality. Nearly forty years later, the TV series Lost, … Continue reading
CheapFlights.com interview with Michael
After lining up media interviews for my clients for so many years, I was surprised when, several months ago, I received a Cheapflights.com request to interview me. Just published today … Waiting to Board with Michael Straus Michael Straus has worked for 20 years in sustainable food and agriculture, and environmental issues. After successfully launching … Continue reading
The Last Resort
My new article – about The Last Resort in Nepal (both on Green Traveler Guides and Reuters) – was just published … a very cool place which, behind the scenes, has done a tremendous amount for their community … the highlight of my visit (this past November, 2010) was my bridge dive in the abyss below … Continue reading
Is TIME on my side?
I was laughing at myself (pretty hard) yesterday … sandwiched in between a long overnight bus ride, randomly meeting the region’s organic pioneer, prepping to dive into (and hopefully equally able to extricate myself from) a spiritual movement/cult, and realizing that I’m a descendant of the guys who were the leaders of the Mumbai’s and … Continue reading
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