To "shanghai" someone away means to lie, deceive or downright coerce him to undertake a reluctant journey. It's an old practice that crews on sailing ships would use in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in order to recruit unwitting
I wanted to share some of the colorful characters one can encounter while traveling. Not every travel experience has to be exotic; the point of doing travel writing is to get a feel for the spirit of the place and
I lay in my sleeping bag, unable to sleep. Outside the tent, the heavy winds that had complicated our overnight fishing trip had died down. Maybe they’d be back. I could feel a thin layer of sand and fine dust