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Gone Reading
by Tom Swick | 03.18.14 | 12:04 PM ET
Tom Swick on the unsung union of the traveler and the book
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Yahoo! BuzzA Bridge Not Too Far
by Peter Ferry | 03.01.14 | 1:25 PM ET
Photo: Peter Ferry On a sunny summer day, novelist Peter Ferry bikes to a Dutch bridge where hundreds of soldiers perished
Hands Like Shovels
by Jessica Colley | 12.31.13 | 10:21 PM ET
Photo courtesy of Jessica Colley Jessica Colley had attended family funerals back in the States, but none had prepared her for her first Irish burial
Clear-Eyed in Calcutta
by Andrew McCarthy | 12.19.13 | 3:02 PM ET
Rossleetabak/Flickr Andrew McCarthy closed his eyes the moment before the blade hit the goat's neck. Afterward, he knew just what he had to do.
In the Abode of the Gods
by Jeffrey Tayler | 07.10.13 | 11:22 AM ET
Jeffrey Tayler treks a Buddhist pilgrimage route through China's remotest, high-altitude domains
A Sort of Happy Ending
by David Farley | 06.08.13 | 1:34 PM ET
David Farley was 15 when his older brother took him to a strip club in Mexico to make him a man
Crawling Toward Bangalore
by Clay Shivers | 01.22.13 | 11:10 AM ET
Clay Shivers boarded the Indian train determined to live out his travel fantasies
Shooting Kakadu
by Andrea Johnson | 12.18.12 | 11:10 AM ET
Andrea Johnson Andrea Johnson explores Australia's Northern Territory and the challenge of capturing meaningful travel photographs
Swallowing Fear in San Miguel de Allende
by Kristin Van Tassel | 09.16.12 | 5:12 PM ET
iStockPhoto Kristin Van Tassel's ideal window for learning a foreign language closed over 30 years ago. Is there still time?
Catching the Gist
by Jessica Colley | 08.07.12 | 1:09 AM ET
Photo by Jessica Colley How to communicate when you don't speak the language? In Italy, Jessica Colley fumbled toward an answer.
Subterranean Gulag Baroque
by Taras Grescoe | 07.20.12 | 10:23 AM ET
In an excerpt from his new book, "Straphanger," Taras Grescoe explores Moscow's extraordinary Metro system
Still Listening
by Catherine Buni | 07.13.12 | 10:28 AM ET
On New Hampshire's Androscoggin River, Catherine Buni tried to draw her paddling partners into conversation. But her questions only got her so far.
Translating Respect
by Lenore Greiner | 06.27.12 | 10:15 AM ET
In Italy, visiting Nigerian students asked Lenore Greiner to explain a classic American song
Detained in the Sahara
by Bill Donahue | 05.30.12 | 9:47 AM ET
It was night. Soldiers ordered Bill Donahue from the vehicle. Would they administer primitive justice?
Bali Belly and the Zombie Apocalypse
by Linda Watanabe McFerrin | 05.17.12 | 1:17 PM ET
When Linda Watanabe McFerrin fell ill, all the travel meds in the world couldn't keep the undead away