Tag: adventure
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Chile: the W trek, a thirtieth birthday in the Andes, and the driest desert on earth

Part two of two: turning thirty on the first morning of the W trek, a puma past camp that same evening, five days and 110 kilometres through Torres del Paine — then the flight the length of Chile to San Pedro de Atacama.
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Malaysia: four days in Kuala Lumpur, and a birthday

Part five of five, and the end of the series. Batu Caves at seven in the morning, the best filter coffee of the month, a birthday dinner with four Michelin plaques by the door, and a rooftop on the last night.
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Laos: five nights, and the slowest week of the month

Part two of five. Luang Prabang, Kuang Si Falls, the moon bears, and a thatched hut out over Nam Ngum lake.
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26 nights across America

Nine parks, two coasts, one rental car. We left Munich in May with a plan that everyone we told about it said was far too much. New York first, then all the way across to San Francisco, where we would pick up a car and drive south and east — through the Sierra Nevada, into…