Coconut Radio

It’s that time of year again. For the fifth time in the last six years Kamoka Pearl is donati...

  When you're naked and the only white person among around 50 Japanese women, you expect to be noticed. But here I was wearing ...

  I’ve read lots of essays about why people write and they often start with something about how the writer couldn’t ...

--> Excellent Zhan invited me to dinner at his favorite restaurant in Shenzen. It was my second day in China, I was there on ...

I just read an article that made me wince, not because it was bad, but because it so eloquently explained ideas I've wanted to write a...

  A few days ago I tweeted " I love you Tahiti but I gotta say that coming back to a sunny Portland is no bummer." I ins...

I'm guessing it was 1977. I was about six years old and my parents decided we'd caravan down to Baja in our 4WD for an off-road ad...

  It's mind boggling that it's been three years since the launch of Passports With Purpose and the first time that I, in ...

OK so it was a big daypack but, even though I usually carry a small-ish travel pack, this was the lightest I've ever traveled. W...

Our trekking guide from Mamasa to Tana Toraja was a Mamasan man named Domingus, which he told us is derived from the word Sunday, "Domi...