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A woman encounters a familiar face while on an Italian train ride to her best friend’s funeral. This story was selected as the winner of the Romance on the Road…

While working at McMurdo Station, a writer is thrilled and love-struck by the desolate landscape of Antarctica. What follows is both a moving personal story and a vivid description of…

A traveler leaves the tourist trail to confront the realities of Villa Salvador a shandy town on the outskirts of Lima that is known as Peru’s largest slum. The condominiums…

Travel writer and author Timothy Mathis ignores advice from fellow travelers and makes his way to El Salvador’s small port city of La Union — notorious for gangs and violence.…

Between puffs on a joint, a stoned traveler in Nicaragua struggles to understand why his beard is receiving so much attention — and begins to construct a fascinating theory… Memories…

During a cruise down the Nile River, a traveler and her fellow tourists watch as a small boat pulls up alongside theirs. What could these strangers want? It’s day two…

A traveler in Vietnam sets her sights on an “urbex” — an urban exploration experience — she can’t pass up, with a three-story concrete dragon at its center. My partner,…

A trip through Eastern Europe lands a traveler in Transnistria, a country that doesn’t officially exist, causing her to question what actually defines a country. Our hodge-podge of cars and…

When night falls in Gyumri, Armenia’s second-largest city, a traveler finds himself sharing the dance floor with unlikely companions. THE CITY IS IN DARKNESS. All streetlights are off. Furious packs…