Ernest Hemingway

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Run Bull Run: Exploring Pre-Festival Pamplona

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Pamplona is a city on the edge of a 'wicked combination' of blood sport and adrenaline. Peer through the keyhole of the bullring five days before San Fermín begins.

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Pews, Bunks, and Bronze: Finding Hemingway in a Pamplona, Spain

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Sleep in a 16th-century church and walk in Hemingway's footsteps! Explore Pamplona's iconic Café Iruña and Plaza del Castillo on a unique Camino de Santiago journey.

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Pintxos and Prose: Finding Hemingway in Burguete

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Walk in Hemingway's footsteps in Burguete (Auritz). From Basque pintxos to the famous inscribed piano at Hostal Burguete, discover this literary Camino stop.

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Lake Manyara: A Good Park for a Safari Start

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Is Lake Manyara truly the home of tree-climbing lions? Explore Tanzania's hidden gem and discover why this bird-watcher's paradise is the perfect safari start.

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Stork swarm

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Stork swarm

Swarms of giant storks were suddenly everywhere. They were beyond counting. In the hundreds? For sure. Thousands? Maybe. Some circled slowly overhead, great wings outstretched. Many more rested, nested, and clattered their bills from poo-spangled trees. 

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Fingerprints on a frosty pane

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Fingerprints on a frosty pane

Great sheets of ice flanked our walk on Kibo's rim. Aside from the fact that we were tripping along a corridor that was 19,000 feet in the sky, it could have been someone's gravel driveway. Or one of Jupiter's moons.

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The most interesting man in the world

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The most interesting man in the world

Ernest Hemingway dangled a riddle of death at the front end of his short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." But what kind of epigraph is this? A freeze-dried window decoration? A chewy historical tidbit? The most interesting man in the world may have solved the riddle.