![]() Rock Plaza Central Are We Not Horses Rare Birth To the meager extent I was ever an actual, boots- on- the- ground reporter, journalism has been a pretext for interesting travel. Thus my trip to Nicaragua-that is, my second trip to Nicaragua. For me, the next best thing to time travel is going to places where history is vivid and fresh and still unfolding.Įxtinct volcanoes can be interesting, but active ones are exciting. ![]() Rather than Himalayan treks and Patagonian campouts, my taste in adventure tends toward extreme mental more than physical stimulation, a contemplation of danger and valor and their vestiges rather than actual physical risk-meaning vacations to countries with problematic recent histories (South Africa, Israel), and where the United States has fought wars in my lifetime (Vietnam, Grenada) or threatened to (China, Russia, Hungary, East Germany). In other words, I’m a travel moderate, a Goldilocksian, always searching for the just- right balance of comfort and strangeness, not too hot (or scary or primitive) and not too cold (or fake or antiseptic). On the one hand, I will probably never go on one of those charity vacations where you perform worthy labor on behalf of poor people on the other, the one cruise I’ve taken (from Mumbai to Athens) really was a supposedly fun thing I’ll never do again.
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