Welcome to my website, Curious Traveler, which I hope will be just as run-of-the-mill and forgettable as every other homepage designed by a travel writer who thinks he can somehow carve out a niche for himself in an absurdly bloated market. The idea behind Curious Traveler is that travel writers must be curious; that the world is interesting and therefore worth exploring must be a core belief. But almost by definition travel writers end up being just plain curious, by which I mean weird. That’s part of their glory.
I’ve got five basic categories:
“Diatribes” is my rants and raves section, a cocktail of intellectual inquiry, humor, and pretension.
“Mental Mastications” is for ruminations, meditations, contemplations, and stuff like that. The thing is I wanted to use a less commonly seen -tion word, hence mastications. I also like the image it gives me: a travel writer crouching in a pasture like a cow, endlessly chewing grass.
“Perils Averted” is for adventures and other outings. That’s what most travel writing is, I think: just another dangerous situation the writer inserts himself in, like the plucky protagonist he is, only to narrowly escape, totally unscathed.
“Profiles of Interest” is stuff about people whose stories are more interesting to write about than my own. There will be many.
And lastly, “The Catharsis of Wilderness and Corresponding Nonsense” is, of course, nature writing.
I’ll be updating the site a lot. Check back often, or, better yet, subscribe in the lower right corner.
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