Ned Entrikin's Travels
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Paris Ghosts
April 16, 2025
(From a trip taken March 31-April 3) Qui suis-je? Who am I? And why have I decided to return to this city? There is the pretense that I have come to visit a...
Tokaido Diary
March 23, 2025
Notes from a trip to Japan taken January 20-30, 2025. There is a board game we play called Tokaido. In the game, you follow the old Tokaido road from Kyoto...
Maltese Sketches
February 2, 2025
Notes from a trip taken November 13-17, 2024. I stared out over the city walls of Valletta and across the water at the three fingers of land that reached...
The Big Apple
December 29, 2024
Based on a trip taken June 29th-July 3rd. We had given up on our more-or-less annual trip to the West Coast and so decided to spend a few days in New York...
Postcards from Italy
December 3, 2023
As is often the case, it's been months since I took the trip that I describe below. In fact, I had almost decided I wouldn't write about it at all until I...
The Great American Road Trip
October 20, 2022
It's been six months since I took this trip.... This summer we visited the U.S. for the first time in three years, since the pandemic began. We made a trip...
The Arctic Circle
December 11, 2021
Last month we took a trip to Finnish Lapland. We wanted snow, we wanted the Northern Lights, and we wanted to see Santa Claus. I had come up with the idea a...
Transylvania (Twice)
October 8, 2020
They struck me as minor travels when I took them, but now that no one can travel much of anywhere, they seem as worthy of writing about as anything. Last...
Lightsaber in August
August 14, 2019
Some memories of warmth in the depths of winter.... Every summer we take a week-long trip in coastal Turkey. Last year, we liked our trip so much, that we...
Sicilian Journal
March 31, 2019
1/20 Left Istanbul at 2:30 on flight for Catania. Began Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler on the plane. I've never read anything of his since...
The Deep South
August 4, 2018
Toward the end of July, Oya, Julia and I took a road trip from my parents' new house in Cleveland down to New Orleans. This is the trip to the Deep South I...
The Caucasus (slightly revised)
April 15, 2018
An earlier version of this got out with a few errors in it and missing a detail I had meant to include. Disregard the previous version (with the title from...
Islands & Peninsulas
September 2, 2017
Just at the beginning of my summer, I feel compelled to finally complete this letter about two trips made in the previous summer before they are supplanted...
Travels in the Doric Hexapolis
February 17, 2017
During the long Easter weekend (actually a long election weekend in Turkey), I finally had time to type up a travelogue from a trip to the Dodecanese Islands...