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Presenting 92-year-old #AntonioRao, the oldest @runrome_themarathon finisher at 6:44, and a fellow finisher of the Rome 10K last year 👟 My #running had been fallow since 2018. I’d set a personal record of 3:52 at Berlin Marathon, maintained de

Three times I traipsed through #Trastevere, like the three coins you toss into the Trevi. Once with an old friend, once with an even older friend, and once with the person I’ve known the longest — me. But in the 13th #rione, all these yea

Meet me ‘neath that giant Exxon sign, where Tenth Avenue crosses Thunder Road like a runaway American dream into the promised land.
“The mighty #EStreetBand is here tonight to call upon the righteous power of art, of music, of #rocknroll

#Bushwhacking and #bushwalking in Gruyère, @visitvictoria @yarravalleydandenongranges @australia.
#trekking #hiking #offtrail #yarravalley #australia #downunder #outdoors #outdooradventurephotos #outdooradventures #kangaroo #forest #oldtrees #

Behind every pathological #pancake eater, there is an enabling papa. In pre-Marina Bay Sands #Singapore, #MinJiangKueh was a cheap and easy snack — a handful of happiness, like all great holdable and portable #carbs stuffed with fantastic feeli

Sometimes as a kid, you lpick up a softball and toss it, not knowing anything about the sport, and end up playing it for life. Sometimes a friend tells you to come to Italy, which sets in motion so many wonderful things. Sometimes a friend helps you

“Our food is so enriching, even with all the money you can’t get this food outside,” said Vikram, a very knowledgeable friend of #SriSenpagaVinayagarTemple, a shrine where Lord #Ganesha presides in #Katong. He meant the wada made fr

I don’t remember how @ashleahalpern and I met, a decade ago, but such a minor detail buried under the palatial piles of plates of Singapore #hawkerfood polished off together. Then, as now (and forever), it is the highest honor to be in the halo

I’ve had better #Thanksgiving plates, but I’ve never had more #gratitude, with plenty leftover to keep in my back pocket for every single day. My #family, my #friends, my @thelensmen2020 team, everyone I have the privilege of working with

The vibrant, exhilarating heart of true explorers: touching down in #Singapore after a 18:40 non-stop from JFK, literally lagged but figuratively fresh, and in feisty, fighting form to dedicate just 36 hours here to #Katong and #LittleIndia. Forget c

It’s #TevereDay2024, and this week the #TiberRiver flowing through @roma becomes a #unescoworldheritage site. Arriving in #Rome in May — that kind of long-awaited, much-anticipated childhood dream touchdown — my first deep dive into

As a kid, I don’t remember which came first — learning about the #Colosseum then dreaming of encountering it for the next 40 years, or learning the word “colossal” before knowing it derives from the 1,944-year-old, 80,000-spec

Because in the real #Singapore that’s sweatily authentic, there’s always an uncle selling #icecreamsandwiches gripped with rainbow bread. If you know where he parks in your neighborhood, you’re a local.

“We didn’t want

@roma was neither built nor eaten in a day. I didn’t get to maritozzo, trapizzino, cacio e pepe, carciofi alla giudia, and who remembers what else. Mostly because I was fed full by mamme and packed with a cornucopia of every other incredible se

Happy #MothersDay to la mamma @shiokade, who is everything beyond definition, delineation and defiance (and Desiree). You’re full of flavor, you’re sweet, you’re spicy and most of all, you’re the bed of rice holding us all tog

A #friendship story: I’ve known @peipei29 for 28 years, during which we have together colleged three years at #NorthwesternUniversity, roommated for a year, played too many hours of Snood, took out excessively from Buffalo Joe’s, broke sp

In 1999, @shiokade and I drove Route 66 from L.A. to sweet home Chicago, Thelma and Louising it, but with a happy ending and without Brad Pitt. We spent our evenings at iconic stops along The Mother Road like Wigwam Motel in Arizona and Trade Winds I

Meet @shiokade Choo Eng Bee Bim Bap. She dons a summery, sunshiney flutter of #omelet bits with a stunning choker of #caramelized fried #porkbelly slices. And her headdress — oh my goodness, Santo Cielo, her headdress! — is an array of #k

Circa 5,000 meters above sea level. 5am. Frigid, whipping, icy winds. Darkness. Rock. Me hugging rock. Drowsiness. Nausea. Dizziness. Yes, summitting #MountKilimanjaro, the tallest peak in Africa, the highest freestanding #mountain in the world, is m