Tim Neville

Jan 31, 2025 | nytimes.com | Tim Neville

Daybreak filtered through spindly stands of Terminalia trees, and the windshield glowed. It was September in northwest Zimbabwe, and the morning carried the lingering chill of an African winter. I rode at the head of a convoy that had been rumbling through the night. Campfires flickered eerily from the forest, where truckers ferrying copper out of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo had stopped to rest. A towering man with slate-colored eyes yawned at the wheel.

Dec 10, 2024 | bendmagazine.com | Tim Neville |Cali Clement

These Bendites get your sticks in top shape for a slippery season on snow. You know the feeling. There you are, cross-country skiing along the first leg of the Tangent Loop at Meissner, when everything goes south. For me, it often happens after that left at the five-point intersection and the long climb toward Swampy begins. Sure, it’s uphill but it’s not that uphill. Suddenly I’m working 20 times harder. My form crumbles and lungs burst. Snowshoers are faster. What a drag.

Dec 5, 2024 | flipboard.com | Tim Neville

This is The Correct Way to Load a DishwasherWhen it comes to loading a dishwasher, there are a lot of disagreements on what should be put where—do cups go on the top rack or bowls? Should you …

Dec 5, 2024 | outsideonline.com | Tim Neville

I should be wrecked. It’s my first full day in South Africa after a brutal 33-hour journey from my home in Bend, Oregon. I woke at 3:15 A.M. to catch the first of three flights to Johannesburg, crossed nine time zones in economy class, and finally fell into bed at 9 P.M. Typically, my jet lag for such a long-haul trip lasts for days. Strangely, though, I feel great. I have no brain fog. I’m not dizzy or cold or getting any odd-hour cravings.

Dec 3, 2024 | outsideonline.com | Tim Neville

Paige McClanahan, a journalist and travel writer, is much too diplomatic to phrase it this way, so allow me to be the grump: you’re the reason locals so often dislike tourists. “Travel has become a consumerist exercise where the goal is to get our money’s worth out of a place,” McClanahan says in a phone interview from her home in France. “We need to wake up.