Obama Tourism: Where to Go to Trace His Roots?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 11.13.08 | 12:32 PM ET
It would require no small trip. Writes the AP’s Beth J. Harpaz: “[T]o see all the places connected to Obama’s life story, you’d have to visit three countries, six time zones and six states.” Yeah, I’d say Obama qualifies as a global soul. Speaking of which, Global Soul author Pico Iyer was having hamburgers with Paul Theroux in Hawaii, pre-election, when he spotted the future global-soul prez on the beach with his family. Iyer writes about it in Time.