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How Much is a Sunset Worth?
by Jim Benning | 01.08.02 | 2:41 AM ET
Contributor Rolf Potts, on a train up the Nile valley, contemplates the value of a sunset and the Eastern art of baksheesh on public radio’s The Savvy Traveler.
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by Michael Yessis | 12.18.01 | 12:17 AM ET
Brennan and Rob, aka The Lawyers, were crowned champions of the CBS reality television show The Amazing Race Wednesday night. The duo beat Margarita and Frank, aka The Separated Parents, on the 13th leg from Alaska to New York City, an achievement that travel writer Edward Hasbrouck says had little to do with the reality of around-the-world travel. Get Hasbrouck’s excellent Amazing Race commentary at his website, or ask the winners anything you want during their victory chat today at 2:30 p.m. EST.
Telling Stories
by Michael Yessis | 10.20.01 | 8:50 PM ET
National Public Radio’s Savvy Traveler recently broadcast two stories of note. This week, residents of Gander, Newfoundland and passengers of Delta Flight 15, which was forced to land in remote Canada in the hours after hijacked planes hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers on September 11, tell their stories. The passengers of Flight 15 were stranded for four days, and locals turned out in droves to comfort them with hot showers and home-cooked meals. Previously, World Hum co-editor Jim Benning reported on an encounter with a Muslim man named Kenny in Malaysia. Kenny invited Jim to join him in a restaurant and told him he looks a little “like that American actor, that kung fu fighter.” Jim, who, for the record, looks quite unlike Chuck Norris, reluctantly joined him, and emerged with a renewed sense of why we travel.
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