March 18, 2019
Twenty Thousand Kilometers of Nowhere
It happened again. An old man this time. Long white hair melting into his beard. Eyes glazed over. The plump woman shouted “Oi! You gotta pay for that!” She ran…
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March 11, 2019
The God of Snakes – Scaling The Himalayan peak of Nag Tibba
I was walking. I kept walking through the rocky trail as my body could feel the weight of every step I took. The sun shone bright, but the air was…
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February 26, 2019
Madrid – Mysteries Overlooked
Madrid is a languid rush. As in all big cities, people look ahead and walk with purpose. Yet they move slowly. Pedestrians habitually pause in the middle of the street,…
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February 19, 2019
The Volcano at Dawn – Trekking Bali’s Mount Batur
As I scrambled upwards through dirt and weeds in the pitch black, I started to feel extremely faint. Our local guide Eddie was quick on his feet, bounding ahead across…
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February 5, 2019
Returning Home after Long Term Travel
It’s a tough one, returning home from an extended trip overseas. 10 months in Europe; 88 beds in a year; travellers’ exhaustion. It couldn’t be more different than leaving. Everyone…
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January 16, 2019
Soul Searching in Sri Lanka
One Tuesday afternoon in Mirissa, a small tourist town in the southern province of Sri Lanka, I slouched my sandy self on a beach chair, gazing at the clear blue…
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December 21, 2018
The Kingdom of the Tiger
A Writer Recounts His Doomed Attempt to Photograph a Bengal Tiger in India's Jim Corbett National Park While my friend and I were merrily interning at an NGO in the…
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December 10, 2018
Cutting it Fine in Slovenia
Long-term travel means you have to do a few of those ‘normal’ things on the road… like eat fruit, buy new toothpaste, and… get a haircut. Our writer had put…
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December 5, 2018
At the Funeral of a Thai Monk
A Writer Determined To Get Off Thailand's Well-Trodden Tourist Trail Finds Himself Invited to the Province of Roi Et to Attend The Funeral of an Influential Buddhist Monk Owned and run…
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December 3, 2018
Flying to the Wild South
The Adrenaline Rush Enhances the Beauty of the Landscape Below on a Flight over Tasmania I became used to the humming of the engines just as the mountain, city and bridge…
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