As dawn breaks in Tokyo’s historic Asakusa district, an insomniac traveler wanders the streets, listening to recollections of a lost travel writing hero. No one negotiates like an insomniac. You …
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AsiaThe Travel Writing PodcastTraveling While Dad
From Zero to National Geographic; Jamie Edwards’ Story of Travel Writing and Parenthood
When Jamie Edwards was a mother of a two-year-old and expecting a second child, her husband was offered a job in Tokyo. They left all that was familiar and headed …
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A spontaneous drinking bout in a Tokyo bookshop helps a jaded expat rediscover the spirit of travel. “Well that’s certainly the most pissed I’ve been in a bookshop,” I wheezed …
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We hightailed it outta Tianjin through smog that caught in your throat, erased buildings barely 50 meters away, and tinged everything with a sickly orange-brown hue. Jaded from over a …