An excerpt from my upcoming travel memoir, Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust: When I heard there was a nightly rodeo on a 2001 trip to Cody, Wyoming, I had to see it. Local residents advised me to sit in the Buzzard’s Roost. “You won’t be looking into the sun at…

An excerpt from my upcoming travel memoir, Travel Mania: Stories of Wanderlust. On the first morning of the camel trek, I walked at the front of two parallel lines of camels. A gentle Moroccan came tender led each line, singing and chanting, as our group of eight headed into a…

In 2007 I took my first trip to Tibet and several of my first impressions involved yaks and — surprisingly — blenders. An excerpt from my upcoming travel memoir, Travel Mania: “As our plane passed over, I got my first glimpse of the Himalayas. At first they didn’t look much…