The Casual Traveler

There’s something about returning to a place you’ve already traveled to that gives it more weight.  We don’t go back to places that bore us, places that don’t excite us in some way.  We go back because we are looking for more.  With this often comes great expectations. With less than two days left beforeRead more

How I came to be (and what the hell Tiger Bomb is).

My father immigrated to the United States in or around 1980.  The Vietnam War was over and he found himself on the losing side of long, bitter and terrible fight.  After spending time in a Malaysian refugee camp, he found asylum first in France, then in Sacramento, California and finally in Reno, Nevada. I wasRead more