Seattle

Oaxaca, Mexico

Mexico City

Monterey Peninsula

Savannah

Oregon Coast

Washington State

Tbilisi

Bucharest

Joshua Tree

Chisinau

Washington, D.C.

New York

Moscow Environs

Moscow

Barcelona

Slicing through Barcelona’s buttery air, slivers of evening sun linger in Barri Gotic’s honeyed backstreets. Despite a ceaseless circuit of taxis and tourists, this city of 1.6 million saunters through life, lingering for hours in street cafes of worn graffiti and iron wrought to rival gaudy Gaudi.

London

York

Cambridge

Prague

Puerta Vallarta

Budapest

Hong Kong

Everywhere it reverberates… ping, ping, ping. The high-pitched metallic tapping of crosswalk signals for the blind, hovering above the white noise of rushing trams and Chinese lullabies of seaside Tai Chi. Aromas of dried abalone, incense, and dusty ginseng rise to a crescendo under layers of thick humidity, so wet that clothes never really quite dry. A hawk soars above, a magnificent 360 view of a city encircled by sharp green mountains and the world's greatest number of skyscrapers. Despite the sensory excess, Hong Kong’s best offering is a deeply felt tranquility, of being rooted in a land completely foreign.