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Reading Travel: New and Old Books We Loved This Year: Travel Books: More than two dozen contributors and friends of World Hum recall their favorite travel reads of 2011

Journey to High Mountain: Travel Stories: In an e-book excerpt, Tara Austen Weaver finds a new home in rural Japan

Interview with Henry Rollins: Punk Rock World Traveler: Travel Interviews: Jim Benning asks the musician about his new book of photographs and how travel has humbled him

Are Travel Writers the New Poets (Though Not in a Good, Lyrical Way)?: Travel Stories: Tom Swick on writers and readers in an increasingly fragmented world

The Not-So-Endless Summer: audio slideshow: Parting with beach season is especially sweet sorrow in Biarritz, France, as Abbie Kozolchyk discovered

Greek Paradise, Lost: Travel Stories: In the Aegean isles, Dan Saltzstein went in search of a mysterious cave. He found it -- and a dose of danger.

Of Laws and Loopholes: Travel Stories: Christopher Vourlias just wanted to cross the border, but one man stood between him and the Congo

On Coastal Time: Travel Stories: Years pass. Life changes. But for Pam Mandel, one thing stays the same: her love for the Olympic Peninsula.

Bad ‘Carma’: Travel Stories: David Farley wanted to drive only occasionally during his stay in Italy. So why did something always go wrong?

Greetings From _________: Travel Stories: Keep in touch the easy way with Doug Mack's all-purpose postcard template

Stilettos in Paris: Travel Stories: Eva Holland did the Bohemian backpacker thing in Paris. Paris Las Vegas gave her the chance to act out a different role.

A Visit With the Emperors: audio slideshow: Lured by the possibility of seeing penguins, Chris Epting ventured to Snow Hill Island in Antarctica

Confessions of an Introverted Traveler
Speaker's Corner: Sophia Dembling has a different style of traveling, and she's tired of hiding it
Confessions of a Chicken Man
Travel Stories: Doug Mack knows what you think of him when he orders the blandest thing on a foreign menu. He's okay with that.
Confessions of a Born-Again Cowboy in France
Speaker's Corner: At home in the United States, Peter Wortsman is more Woody Allen than John Wayne. But not in France.
Confessions of a Cross-Border Shopper
Speaker's Corner: Eva Holland took advantage of the strong Canadian dollar to cross the border and shop in New York.