Another ‘Journeys’ Issue from The New Yorker

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  04.13.10 | 2:45 PM ET

The New Yorker’s latest Journeys issue is out, and it includes a great read from World Hum contributor Peter Hessler about moving back stateside after more than a decade in China. The full online version is behind a subscription wall, but here’s a taste:

[A]fter years of standing out as a foreigner in urban China, I liked the idea of rural solitude and anonymity. A small town in the Rocky Mountains where nobody knew us—that was our own Chinese version of the American Dream. We bought a used Toyota, put a cooler in the back, and followed two-lane highways around Colorado. It was late March and the snow was still deep in the mountains; some of the high passes were closed. At night, we stayed in cheap hotels, and during the day we talked to real-estate agents, who rarely had much to show us.

We published a story about Hessler’s Beijing driving exam a few weeks back.

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Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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