We were sinking. I’d never been on a canal cruise and had no idea what to expect, certainly not this. It got dark as a concrete wall crept up my cabin window. I could feel the river barge dropping. I left my cabin, heading straight for whatever the front of the ship is called.

I rarely turn on the TV in a hotel room. But after a long day at a world airline conference in the upside-down of Australia, I needed connection to the outside world. Click. Thick black smoke billowed from a skyscraper.

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There’s a crazy legend in the Hungarian wine region of Eger about “Bull’s Blood.” It morphs, expanding and contracting depending on the storyteller, but the basic gist is how the Magyars won a battle against the Turks based on being drunker and more slovenly than any other army in history.

Buda or Pest? Buda, hilly and regal, provides a spectacular backdrop for walks along the Danube. On the Buda side, the golden Castle glows like a crown on the hill, overlooking its hipper, more urban sister, Pest. If this city were an episode of Downton Abbey, Buda is Lady Mary – stately, imperialistic and...

Beating drums reverberated through the small wine village of Mád. Everyone was to come out into the streets for an announcement. This is how the Hungarian gendarme communicated with townspeople in the first half of the 20th century.

I never knew Harold Reynolds. Or Alma Paulson, or Ernest Price, but their story has haunted me for decades. Their story compelled me to take a journey across Ireland and Canada. When most kids used their imaginations to conjure something fanciful like, say, a planet filled with unicorns, I was fixated on...

I never unpack. Not fully. Because I travel so often, this is one of my travel hacks to cut down on preparing for a trip. Among the bags that stay packed, I have...