Doug Fine: Author, Journalist, Adventurer, Goat-Herder

When I was in my 20s, with most everyone telling me to get a real job, I called myself a journalist and set sail for places that interested me, usually for cultural reasons. It’s a small planet, I reasoned, and one can get anywhere from anywhere with one plane ticket and a forged press pass or two. Here are a few of the resulting pieces.

RWANDA

The Misty Future of Rwanda’s Mountain Gorillas

BURMA

Burmese Opposition Leader Snubs Junta’s Constitution Talks

I Get My Jade at the Source

LAOS

The General and Me

The Mets Away in Laos

UZBEKISTAN

Uzbekistan Airways Flight 207, Somewhere Over the Atlantic Ocean

TAJIKISTAN

Iron Curtain Call?

GUATAMALA

On Guatemala’s Gringo Circuit