Travel Writing

I feel perfectly at home abroad, a citizen of the world. My travel pieces often relate to music, wine, food, art, and nature. Articles are grouped by subject below, except for those in Travel & Leisure.

Arts: Monet’s Normandy (Boston Phoenix); Rome’s Christmas Presepi [cradles], Restoration of S. Francesco in Assisi, Orvieto’s Cathedral (Boston Herald)

Bicycling: Nantucket, MA; Route 100, VT; Kennebunkport, ME (Boston Herald).

Birdwatching: Mount Auburn Cemetery, Nantucket (Yankee Magazine); Nantucket, Monomoy Island [MA] (Boston Herald); Whale & Seabird Watching (Boston Business Journal); Plymouth Whale & Birdwatching (Patriot Ledger). Columns in Brookline Tab, Our Town Brookline Magazine. Videoscripts for American Birding Assocaition [Birders' Exchange] and Migration Productions [Looking Skyward].

Canada: Newfoundland (Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times), Montreal; Via Rail, The Trans-Canada Train; Vancouver (Boston Herald).

Massachusetts: Nantucket (Boston Phoenix), see also: birdwatching, bicycling, Travel & Leisure.

Museums: Monterey [CA] Aquarium and Birdwatching Boats (Patriot Ledger)

Jazz Festivals & Reports: San Juan, Puerto Rico (Jazz Times); Paris (Jazz Times); Havana, Cuba (Jazz Times); Jamaica Ocho Rios (Downbeat Magazine); Aruba (Jazz Times); Vancouver [BC, Canada] (Boston Herald); Monterey, CA (Downbeat Magazine); Newport, RI; UmbriaJazz [Italy] (summer & winter) (Downbeat Magazine); Wellington [NZ] / Wangaratta [Victoria, AU] (Downbeat Magazine); Euromeet (Veneto, Italy) (Downbeat Magazine).

Travel & Leisure (New York): Travel pieces, puzzles, advice, Great Weekends (Newburyport, The Berkshires), cameos for a Boston Special Issue.

Wine & Spirits: Victoria’s Wine Region (Boston Herald); Piedmont’s Wines, Roman Restaurants (Middlesex News); Mediterranean Wine Tour (The Tab); see also: wine writing.


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