Inside the Boutique Hotel that Banksy Built a in a Conflict Zone The bartender delivered my manhattan wearing a red vest and tie, an image—and drink—I wasn’t expecting to see when I crossed Israel’s “Green Line” into the Palestinian territories to research a school for fourth-generation refugees. But here I am,… Nov 21 17November 21, 2017Article at Title Magazine
Homeland for the Holidays As a child I thought the Arabic term for Lebanon was “the Balaad.” That’s what my parents called it whenever they fondly remembered their life before Canada, before I was born. This other world, as they described it, was somehow a more difficult… Jul 29 17July 29, 2017Article at Eighteen Bridges
Will Travel for Food: Beirut, Lebanon: A romantic journey for food in Lebanon's beautiful capital.The taxi driver looked at the scribbled address as if it were a ransom note. Considering news of gunmen blocking roads and burning tires two nights before in Beirut, where I convinced my non-Lebanese wife to spend half our honeymoon, I worried we… Jul 18 17July 18, 2017Article at Western Living
Call of the Wild: A Week-Long Trek Through Central KenyaSpotting a leopard in the wild is rare. Spotting two leopards at once? Exceptional. But catching two of the nocturnal cats in the act of making a third? Without the aid of night-vision goggles, a thermos of coffee and the patience of an acacia tree?… May 31 16May 31, 2016Article at Sharp Magazine
A Dramatic Dinosaur Museum by Teeple ArchitectsHugging the earth like a giant reptile, the Philip J. Currie Museum in the remote prairies of Alberta is devoted to dinosaurs, inside and out. The road that winds through the Canadian prairies from Edmonton to Whitehorse is long and tedious, dotted… Apr 26 16April 26, 2016Article at Azure
Travel Long Read: Cruising the Canadian ArcticWhy you should add the great white North to your travel bucket list. I’d been blinded by my own privilege. The child, no older than three, was clamouring for my iPhone, which I’d been directing down a gravel road like a wifi divining rod. My only… Apr 12 16April 12, 2016Article at Western Living
Dark ScienceLast month I found myself on top of a dark mountain attending a “star party.” As much as it sounds like a Beverly Hills soirée or a drug-addled orgy, it is not. This star party is a gathering of a few hundred people at the McDonald Observatory in… Feb 17 16February 17, 2016Article at Hazlitt
