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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Seven: Loosing Gender

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Six: Wanna See My AK-47?

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Five: Settling Down on the Fringe

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Four: Being a Woman—Wherever

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Three: Arguments and Getting to the Heart of the Subject

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel E-Mail Roundtable, Part Two: The ‘Feminine Card’

All this week, four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman.

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Women’s Travel Email Roundtable, Part One: ‘He My HUSBAND!’

Four accomplished travelers -- Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Liz Sinclair, Terry Ward and Catherine Watson -- talk about the rewards and perils of hitting the road alone as a woman

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The Gospel According to Michael

The Gospel According to Michael Photo by Abbie Kozolchyk

Disappearing native culture. Vanishing tradition. Abbie Kozolchyk was appalled by the impact of missionaries in Papua New Guinea. But not for long.

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Kerouac! Kerouac! Kerouac!

Matt Villano grew up wanting to be a writer, but he lived in a town where Jack Kerouac once resided. The incessant references to the Beat legend pushed him to the edge. Then he read "On the Road."

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All the Flowers in Amsterdam

Amsterdam canal Photo by Neil Rickards via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

Friday marks the 10th anniversary of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Lynne Friedmann recalls a visit to a Dutch flower market when it seemed the whole world was grieving.

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Le Club Tintin

The rosy-cheeked adventurer never caught on in the U.S. But on the 100th anniversary of his creator's birth, Julia Ross explores the boy's power to unite travelers and melt national divides.

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The Death of the Mile-High Club

The Death of the Mile-High Club Photo by spcoon, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Rolf Potts says it's official: Planes have become flying buses, and air travel is no longer sexy

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Confessions of a Born-Again Cowboy in France

cowboy boots Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

At home in the United States, Peter Wortsman is more Woody Allen than John Wayne. But to his adoptive French family, he is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

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Seven Wonders of the Shrinking Planet

Chicago O'Hare Airport Photo by Idle Type, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Jim Benning and Michael Yessis unveil World Hum's seven wonders: places, things and people that embody ways the planet is shrinking and cultures are colliding

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Suffering and Smiling: Vanity Fair Does Africa

Africa is hot. Why? So we can save it? Frank Bures deconstructs the magazine's latest issue and what it says about Western views of the continent.

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