I write my last post for True/Slant a bit worn out from a full day of kayaking yesterday. It was easy river kayaking, mainly, with just one madly technical section of Class 2 stuff, but a full day of paddling and some porting in the sun saps you a bit. The [...]

My real 'goodbye' starts and ends here. It's just after 1pm in Budapest, which I suppose means around 7am in New York city, and another 18 hours before... what? I'm not really sure. Does the site just disappear offline with a trace? It seems hard to believe. Curmudgeonly old bastard that I [...]

Retirement village? Assisted living? Co-housing? Age-restricted or aging-in-place communities? Inter-generational cooperative? This space has explored many of the growing varieties of housing choices for boomers and elders when the time comes to downsize, rightsize, clear out or economize. Here's a new one that's making the news: think global. Even with (and [...]

In November 2008, this so-called Jet-Set Hobo was in Buenos Aires when he filed his first story for True/Slant. It was called 'From Argentina with Love', and was in some way concerned with what was the new James Bond movie, 'A Portion of Condolence'.  If there was any actual film [...]

It's been a fun ride filled with love, hate and whatever's in between. I'm honored to have been here from the start, and I'm glad to end on a high note. Catch me at Caveat Viator and/or find me on Twitter. -Koyen

On July 20, a magazine publisher named Ned Dawson posted the following message on two LinkedIn groups, Travel Media Pros and Travel Editors & Freelance Journalists: "We have a new Luxury Lifestyle mag launching in January and are looking for a travel writer who focuses on the luxury end of the [...]

Finally! A tour company that caters to my needs. From ABC News (the Australian version): "The Jenolan Caves near the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is about to become possibly the first tourist attraction in the world to launch tours in the fictional Star Trek language of Klingon. Earlier this month [...]

What do you think will happen when folks scamper after a full-grown bison and someone throws a stick at him to get his attention?

There are couples who boast that they have never spent a night apart.  Cue violins! I think: Shoot me. Just shoot me. I think every long-term couple needs serious time apart. Granted, this is much more difficult if you have kids, especially  very small ones, when time without another person's labor can [...]

I must be one of the few readers who has yet to pick up Stieg Larsson's series of crime novels: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played With Fire; and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest. No surprise that the first two have morphed into popular [...]