It is not hard to climb to the highest point in Illinois, unless we are accounting for tedium. Charles Mound (elevation 1,235 feet) is on private property, and open to the public only a handful of weekends a year—including, to my good fortune, the Saturday […]
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Angela Maxwell for Outside Online
On May 2, 2014, with $12,000 saved, Angela Maxwell left her best friend’s home in Bend, Oregon, to start a five-year walk around the world. There’s no pre-approved path for the small ranks of pedestrian circumnavigators, the dozen or so people who’ve claimed they’ve walked around the […]
Hong Kong for the Wall Street Journal
NAMED FOR THE STORES of sandalwood incense that once perfumed its export docks, Hong Kong—that is, “fragrant harbor”—remains an intoxicating meeting place of East and West. British forces raised the Union Jack over Possession Point in 1841 during the First Opium War, fought to protect the […]
Hemispheres Magazine Iceland Cover Story
Not long ago, Iceland was a spectacularly beautiful but seldom visited wonderland of waterfalls, volcanoes, and geysers in the lonely North Atlantic, still finding its national feet after centuries of Danish and Norwegian rule. Then, an unlikely confluence of events: The economic crisis of […]
Baden Baden for United Hemispheres
Baden Baden for United’s Hemispheres: Ten weeks to the day before I arrive in Baden-Baden, I learn my father has a terminal, terrible disease. Two days after that, I am asked to move out of my apartment in Paris posthaste (“Four weeks, six, we can be […]
Amsterdam for Delta Sky
Amsterdam for Delta Sky: You’ve got an extra day to kill in the Dutch capital. Here’s what you do. Neither a freewheeling backpacker’s paradise nor the stolid, staid “Venice of the North,” Amsterdam is in fact one of Europe’s most dynamic cities, home to innovative […]
