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The Cooler

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We romanticize the past and become nostalgic about our first time in a place. Karl Taro Greenfeld returns to Thailand -- to that place.

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Leave Home Without It

Contemplating and celebrating the world of travel

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An Open Window on a Winter’s Night

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Beth Harpaz and her 10-year-old son went to Alaska to see the Northern Lights -- and to hold on to his childhood for a few more minutes

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We’re All Icelanders Now

We’re All Icelanders Now REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Global Positioning: On the intersection of place, politics and culture

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One Traveling Man’s Weak-Dollar Dating Survival Kit

With superior dentistry and monolingual charm, you too can pick up women overseas. Rolf Potts gets all Maxim magazine.

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Wanderlust

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Some struggle to separate love and lust. Elisabeth Eaves has had a harder time distinguishing love from wanderlust.

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Exiled to America

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Adam Karlin tries to reconcile his love for the road and his love for home

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Where the Grass is Green

Bronwen Dickey sings a personal anthem to an unlikely travel song: "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses

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Six Ways Travel Can be Helped by the Recession

Contemplating and celebrating the world of travel

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The Year’s Six Best Global Pop Albums

Seun Kuti in Oslo REUTERS/Ints Kalnins

Ben Keene wants a new category added at the Grammys: Global Pop for the Traveling Mind. Herewith, his nominees.

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Sailor Girl

Sailor Girl on State of Maine Photo by Edie Platt

Cullen Thomas considered his mission -- joining his mother on a perilous sea -- a noble one. But he presumed too much.

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Interview with Ramon Stoppelenburg: The Godfather of CouchSurfing

Michael Yessis talks to the internet's first travel celebrity

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‘Who Would Ever Want to Invite You Into Their Home?’

Ramon Stoppelenberg asked the world to let him stay for a day. The world said, "Come on over."

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An Invitation Aboard the Magic Bus

An Invitation Aboard the Magic Bus REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

In an excerpt from his new book on the hippie trail, Rory MacLean hops a ride in Afghanistan

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Interview With Rory MacLean: ‘Magic Bus’ on the Hippie Trail

Frank Bures asks him about the classic journey from Istanbul's pudding shop to Kathmandu

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