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Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 06.05.01 | 12:01 AM ET
As a 22-year-old traveler in Afghanistan, Brad Newsham wondered what it might be like, one day when he was rich, to invite a stranger back to America for the trip of a lifetime. Newsham never became wealthy by American standards, but decades later, he decided to find out anyway. In Take Me With You, Newsham hits the road in search of the perfect candidate, passing through the Philippines, India, Tanzania and other developing countries, encountering a host of memorable characters. This isn’t your typical went-there, did-that travel book. Newsham’s account is evocative and heartfelt, infused with a generous spirit capable of inspiring even the most jaded traveler. “I felt I’d moved a notch or two up the scale of involvement—from observer to participant,” Newsham writes. “Around any corner I might bump into someone whose life, and my own too, would be forever changed by our meeting….Possibility itself sat like an imp on my shoulder, whispering, ‘This could be the one.’”
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
