Memphis’ Blues-Eyed Boy Rides a Cadillac
Everyone in Memphis knows Tad Pierson. The beige ’55 Cadillac the 67-year-old drives is conspicuous, and Tad is also very affable. After having founded a tour company called ‘The American Dream Safari’...
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How Washington, D.C. is Busy Making Capital Gains
Driving to our hotel from the airport, Supriya turned to me and said, “You told me you were bringing me to the States, but look outside, you’ve got me to Chandigarh.” She was being facetious. Her smile...
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Recovering America, Coast to Coast
Americans love water so much that their country must be Cancerian. Their Independence Day is July 4, after all. This spring I made my way westward across the U.S.A., perhaps not as lyrically as Jack...
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Travelling With My Grandmother
What do you remember of San Francisco?” I asked thamma over a recent phone call, three months after our whirlwind family trip across New York, S.F., San Diego and Los Angeles. “I remember everything:...
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New York: As Good As A Weekend Gets
There are few cities in the world that can always be relied on to provide a jolt of adrenaline to the aerial onlooker from an airplane window. There are the plastic blue rooftops of Mumbai and its...
View ArticleIn Photos | Arizona: A Story in Stone
On a journey through Arizona, driving from San Francisco past the Grand Canyon to the Antelope Canyons east of Page, Arizona, I was witness to the unfolding of a drama in stone. This rugged land of the...
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In Praise of Houston, My Home
From above, it was nothing as imagined. No overflowing rivers, panic-stricken movements or signs of a disaster. But then, distance doesn’t always promise perspective. The ride back home from the...
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Live, from New Orleans
I’m still a stranger to Mumbai that Holi, when I chase the sunset to an unmarked fort. And in the shadow of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link, I find music that takes me back two years and across oceans to New...
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A Taste of Home in the Big Apple
Flags are commonplace in the United States. They’re hoisted outside homes, convenient stores and government offices. Striped red, white and blue, even shirts aren’t spared. In America, people do wear...
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Making the Most of 36 Hours in Atlanta
Day 1 11.00am, FOX THEATRE The Fox Theatre, from a distance, does look peculiar. Its minarets and domes seem plucked out from somewhere in the Middle East. Looking at ablution fountains and...
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Oahu is a Paradise Restored
The lychees look like alien gumballs. Spiky and mottled red, they dangle in thick clusters from the tree in front of me. All around on this hillside farm, mangoes ripen by the thousands on long,...
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Anything Can Happen in New York
“Could you live in New York forever?” I asked Mridu, my wife’s twin sister, a few minutes after she picked me up at Penn Station. It was my first time in New York City, and it felt unconquerable. With...
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Inside Mickey’s Magical Worlds
Spread over land that’s the size of two Manhattans, Walt Disney World’s four theme parks are where tiaras and pirate scarves are worn like badges of honour. Soap bubbles precede gaggles of kids and...
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Sun, Sand, and Pirates on a Disney Cruise
For my morning kick, I join a queue of wee boys and girls in swimsuits, bobbing on the balls of their feet. But it isn’t their chatter that rouses me. On my turn I sit on a raft, and am lunged forward...
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Amtrak: Getting Back on the Rail
The reactions to my upcoming nine-day train trip are fairly typical—surprise and apprehension top the list. A school friend is somewhat encouraging. “I have lived in the U.S. for 25 years,” he said,...
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Los Angeles: Mapping the City of Stars
Los Angeles’s long association with celebrity culture often has it portrayed as a place of sun-bleached swimming pools populated by stars and starlets. But there’s much more to this city than...
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American Cities on the Rise
What’s the most exciting travel story in America? The resurgence of cities large and small. It’s a subject we’ve tracked closely, celebrating the successes of cities that showcase the American knack...
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Sponsored: 24 Hours in New York City
New York City has a gamut of names and phrases to describe it; from pop culture references like ‘Gotham City’ to rapper Jay-Z’s song ‘Empire State of Mind’, where he called it the “concrete jungle...
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How Detroit Got Its Groove Back
Newly waxed and buffed, America’s Motor City is cruising with a new optimism. Its automakers are designing self-driving cars; hometown watch and bicycle brand Shinola is opening a Shinola Hotel; and...
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On the Road to Big Sur
The Route Over five days I drove 550 kilometres north from Los Angeles in a rental car, stopping in Paso Robles, Big Sur, and Monterey, and ending in Santa Cruz. I stayed in a yurt, soaked in moonlit...
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