Road roulette
Demoralized by goals and guidebooks, our correspondent tackles Lithuania and Poland on a thumb and a prayer.
(12/14/99)

Fear and loathing in Latvia
Between the fistfights and the Finnish girls, it's hard to get any writing done.
(11/23/99)

A sexy librarian named Natasha and other surprises of the New Russia
I journeyed 5,000 miles to learn that God is in the weiners and William S. Burroughs is a cult star.
(11/13/99)

The great railway bizarre
Taiga forests, First Class follies and a Slavic Lolita in short-shorts enliven the train journey that has no end.
(11/12/99)

The Trans-Siberian Toilet War of 1999
Exiled from their Trans-Siberian berth for a surmised breach of lavatory protocol, our correspondent and his two companions lead a desperate, paranoid, all-out car chase in an attempt to cut off the train at Ulan Ude.
(11/11/99)

Stranded in Siberia
At an obscure border town, our correspondent discovers the biggest obstacle in negotiating the next 4,000 miles: The train has left without him.
(11/10/99)

Horse races, open spaces and the fate of Genghis Khan's balls
In his first dispatch from an epic Beijing-St. Petersburg train trip, our correspondent explores the mysteries of Mongolia.
(11/09/99)

Goodbye, Khao San Road
As he leaves Southeast Asia, our Vagabonding correspondent reflects on the evolution of the middle-class travel revolution.
(10/12/99)

Shopping for futures
Our wandering correspondent toys with fate in South Korea.
(09/14/99)

Retch-22: Laos in the time of cholera
The official analysis was "diarrhea, with vomiting." Right.
(08/24/99)

Searching for Binh Hoa
Hoping to find an obscure Vietnam War killing field, our correspondent discovers that some lessons of history teach themselves.
(08/10/99)

The Barbecue Jesus and other epiphanies
Wandering off the Vietnamese budget travel trail in search of authenticity, our correspondent finds that authenticity isn't all it's cracked up to be.
(07/27/99)

Rapids, ruins and the end of the river
In which our correspondent wanders the tranquil streets of Thakaek and weathers a dangerous descent.
(07/10/99)

In Vientiane, a lull before the storm
Our correspondent enjoys a drowsy detour in the Lao capital before preparing to take over as second mate on the Mik Sip.
(07/09/99)

A lucky break in Paklay
In which our correspondent gets drunk on rice whiskey one night and finds himself invited onto a boat the morning after.
(07/08/99)

Lotus-eating in Luang Prabang
Buddhist temples, watermelon shakes and crazed speedboat racers meet in the ancient Lao capital.
(07/07/99)

Guns, muskmelon breasts and the Laotian Gandhi
An American takes a Mark Twain-like journey by riverboat down the Mekong.
(07/06/99)

Adventures in the skin trade
Our correspondent's brothel tour of Phnom Penh takes some unexpected twists.
(06/22/99)

Up Cambodia without a phrasebook
On the pleasures and paranoia of being a mostly clueless white guy in the company of Third World hosts.
(06/01/99)

Song of the broken road
Song of the broken road: For adventurers headed overland to Angkor Wat, Cambodia's Route 6 is Disneyland gone bad.
(05/18/99)

A spy on "The Beach"
Our correspondent reports from behind the scenes of Leonardo DiCaprio's new movie.
(05/04/99)

Getting stoned with Mr. X
Our correspondent wanders in search of an Indiana Jones adventure in Thailand's gem country.
(04/20/99)

The Scrooge from Planet Lonely
In the first installment of "Vagabonding," our correspondent pays through the nose for his penny-pinching ways.
(04/06/99)

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