The map is not the territory. It’s a tool for learning the territory: orientation. Recently I’ve revived a favorite off-grid pastime of mine, exploring the terrain of my neighborhood, in search of trails and other possible corridors linking forest, waterfront, and other wild places. For an extended hike, the challenge…
Category: Travel
Remembering Who We Are (part one)
Remembering Who We Are (part one) by Nowick Gray Remember When…? Remember when going out in nature was our favorite fun activity, not just our only fun activity? Remember when we could go shopping and not have to remember the mask, or fear the consequences, or resist, and face the…
The Last Tourist (flashback)
My latest book release, The Last Tourist, comes at the end of a year of global lockdowns (2020), ending an era of freely available global travel. While the episodes in this compendium of travel blog posts covers the period 1998-2015, one entry stands as prophetic, foreshadowing the palpable sense of…
What is Important
The crimes of the colonialists have to be exposed. The insane arrangement of the world has to be defined and then smashed into pieces.The cute trams, bicycle lanes, parks, museums, operas, cafes, universities and hospitals in Europe are built on rivers of blood and the bones of ‘The Others’…There is…