Thirty-Year Journey from Belgium to Malaysia Celebrated with Karaoke, Coffee

Susan Casey met her friend Sang 30 years ago at a Belgian hostel, and she’s stayed in touch with him ever since. Recently she went to visit him in his hometown of Kuala Lumpur, which inspired a report for the public radio program Savvy Traveler on the beauty of a travel friendship maintained. “He gave me a new way to see things,” she says.

Also, two other recent Savvy Traveler pieces caught our attention. Author Tim Palmer sat for an interview about his book Pacific High, which chronicles a nine-month trip he took with his wife along the Pacific Coast Range from Baja California north to Kodiak Island in Alaska.

And World Hum contributor Jeff Biggers had a piece about what can happen when you travel with a banjo, a baby and a laptop computer.

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