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On a visit to Yemen, Sarah Shourd is invited to an enlightening dinner with an Iraqi family.
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Young kite flyer in Aden / Photo author
It’s a few minutes before 6 and the light in the port-city of Aden in South Yemen is beginning to fade.
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Feature and above photo by M. V. Jantzen.
The American Empire still stretches around the globe. Learn how modern day colonists can best experience each destination’s unique bounty.
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} What makes these stories rare and valuable is that the authors didn’t have to write them, but did anyway.
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On the surface, the stories featured in this week’s edition of Tales From The Road don’t have much in common.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, Kenya, Burma, Colombia, Argentina.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Here’s our picks for most ridiculous political ads (so far) from the 2008 campaign trail.
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If there’s one thing I love about politics, it’s the political ads.
Basically you get to distill complex policy decisions into 25-60 second advertisements that will, in all likelihood, be riddled with leaps of logic and poorly constructed arguments.
But hey, it’s television right? Here’s 8 of the most ridiculous political ads we’ve seen so far from the 2008 presidential race.
Tags: Ridiculous, Political, Ads, From, The, 2008, Presidential, Race.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Tim Patterson is back for another rousing edition of great travel stories from around the web.
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Passge Back to India / Photo Anne Cushman
The best sort of travel writing works on at least two levels: one narrow and personal and one broadly illustrative.
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Watching the world burn / Photo Kwest
It is not an exaggeration to say that nearly half the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world.
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Petroleum is vitally important to each and every single aspect of modern human civilization. It not only runs our vehicles, but it’s also manufactured into our plastics and it’s what makes our huge factory farms possible.
Tags: Will, Religion, Prevent, From, Saving, The, PlanetTrue travel gems from around the web, as collected by Tim Patterson.
Photo by Yambushi
What does this latest batch of quality travel stories have in common?
Aside from flawless description, intrepid reportage and the all-important inclusion of details that resonate with the reader and illuminate broader themes, each of these stories was blogged or featured at WorldHum.com.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Mexico, and, Disney, WorldThe world is beautiful and harsh in all its infinite possibilities. Whenever I travel, what I call ???The Tramp and the Kid Doctrine??? guides me.
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“You are a hobo,” declared my friend of a decade. I stared at her, perplexed, and racked my brains to figure out why she was calling me a bum.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was planning a trip to Peru despite not having worked for several months.
Tags: Lessons, Hope, From, The, Kid, Saigon
I’d like to kick off this week’s edition of Tales From the Road with a quote from the stellar travel journalist Robert Kaplan, from a speech originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review:
“Journalism desperately needs a return to terrain, to the kind of firsthand, solitary discovery of local knowledge best associated with old-fashioned travel writing.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, Agent, Orange, Naypidyaw, Surfing, Panama, Sudan, Nazis, Paraguay
Christopher Columbus set off to discover The New World about five centuries ago. Today, Virgin Airlines is looking to offer galactic tours.
Can an explorer of old still teach us anything about travel?
Back in his time, Columbus struggled to talk anyone into financing his dreams. He campaigned for funding in 1485 and appealed to the courts of Portugal, England and Spain continuously until he finally set sail in August of 1492.
Tags: Intrepid, Travel, Tips, From, Christopher, Columbus