Why we travel
It whirls you around, turns you upside down and stands everything you took for granted on its head.
Saturday, Mar 18, 2000 5:00 PM UTCLife Travel
Pico Iyer
Life Travel
This is my home
We clarify ourselves among the foreign, make camp where we'd least expect to.
Wednesday, Feb 23, 2000 5:00 PM UTCLife
A very foreign life
In Nara, Japan, a universe of connections and contradictions unfolds daily.
Tuesday, Feb 22, 2000 5:00 PM UTCLife
The alien home
A globe-wandering writer discovers that home is the most foreign place of all.
Saturday, Feb 19, 2000 5:00 PM UTCLife
Pilgrim's passion
A peripatetic seeker reflects on the quest at the heart of the pilgrimage.
Wednesday, Dec 15, 1999 5:00 PM UTCLife Travel
Sacred places: England before the fall
A lifelong traveler reflects on his own piece of heaven.
Saturday, Aug 28, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife England, British Election, Travel
My sacred place
For an introspective wanderer, a two-room flat in a generic Japanese suburb offers all the possibilities of a traditional shrine.
Saturday, Jun 19, 1999 4:00 PM UTCLife Religion, Travel
Bewitched on Bali
All love affairs are like journeys, deep into a foreign country, where you can't read the signs.
Saturday, Apr 17, 1999 7:04 PM UTCLife
New York serenade
Pico Iyer returns to the Big Apple for five days -- and finds that attitude has its charms.
Wednesday, Jan 13, 1999 8:00 PM UTCLife Travel
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