Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend?
I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region [...]

(World Hum, San Francisco Chronicle) I was strolling down rue Pizay, a narrow, well-lit street in Lyon, when I spotted the sign: “El Sombrero, Tex-Mex.” I knew it would be awful, but I was powerless.