Destination: Asia
Terror in America: A Letter From Thailand
by Jim Benning | 09.13.01 | 1:01 AM ET
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by Newley Purnell | 09.01.01 | 1:02 AM ET
Bangkok's Bangplee Market has everything Newley Purnell could ever want. Except one thing.
Iowa Man Takes Road Trip to See His Orange Boxer Shorts, Jesus Night Light and Wal-Mart Jeans
by Michael Yessis | 08.14.01 | 9:13 PM ET
The idea came to John Freyer as he drove from New York to graduate school in Iowa: He would sell all his worldly goods on eBay. With the proceeds, he would then travel around the world to see his former possessions. “I want to figure out what happens to me when I no longer have all these items that supposedly define us,” Freyer, a 28-year-old fine arts student at the University of Iowa, told Washington Post writer Leslie Walker in a recent story. “I also want to know what happens to the people who buy them. I’m going on a road trip to find out.”
Dietary Aid Mission
by Maura Weber | 06.11.01 | 1:06 AM ET
Photo illustration by Jim Benning. A boy in Hong Kong missed his grape jelly. Maura Weber flew halfway around the globe to bring it to him.
Nightstand Reading
by Jim Benning | 06.05.01 | 12:01 AM ET
As a 22-year-old traveler in Afghanistan, Brad Newsham wondered what it might be like, one day when he was rich, to invite a stranger back to America for the trip of a lifetime. Newsham never became wealthy by American standards, but decades later, he decided to find out anyway. In Take Me With You, Newsham hits the road in search of the perfect candidate, passing through the Philippines, India, Tanzania and other developing countries, encountering a host of memorable characters. This isn’t your typical went-there, did-that travel book. Newsham’s account is evocative and heartfelt, infused with a generous spirit capable of inspiring even the most jaded traveler. “I felt I’d moved a notch or two up the scale of involvement—from observer to participant,” Newsham writes. “Around any corner I might bump into someone whose life, and my own too, would be forever changed by our meeting….Possibility itself sat like an imp on my shoulder, whispering, ‘This could be the one.’”
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