March 6th, 2008
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It??™s hard not to love David Farley.
He??™s the poster-child of a Walking Party travel writer. He eloped to Italy with fellow travel writer Jessie Sholl. He watched a pig get slaughtered outside of Prague and used that for his contribution to Traveler??™s Tales Prague (which he also co-edited with Sholl).
More recently he has become a sort of Indiana Jones for the Gen-X set (his current book is on the search for Jesus Christ??™s foreskin which, up until 1983, was allegedly preserved in the Italian hill-town of Calcata).
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December 14th, 2007
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???I have traveled a great deal in Concord,??? said Henry Thoreau, a native of??¦wait for it??¦Concord, Massachusetts.
In fact, Thoreau was an intrepid traveler for his day and age, vagabonding to Cape Cod and the vast wilderness of the Maine Woods. The great prophet of enlightened self-reliance claimed to have done most of his traveling in his own hometown.
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