October 15th, 2008
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} There may come a time when travel stops being fun. How will you know it’s time to go home?
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Cycling in Vietnam / Photo Shoot Into The Sun
It was eerily similar to swimming.
Water gushed through my helmet, down my hood, and into my face. My gloves and shorts were saturated, weighted sponges clutching my skin. Peeking out from worn sandals, my toes lapped up street water with each pedal stroke.
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September 28th, 2008
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} While America debates on who to vote into the White House, Erin Byrne discovers the Irish have already made their decision.
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On the road / Photo IrishFireside
In Ireland, the roads are lined with ivy-covered stone fences and sprinkled with livestock.
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September 22nd, 2008
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Nothing wrong with having dreams. Just make sure they’re the right ones for you.
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I’m in Nicaragua, wearing a new swimsuit, paddling away from a deserted beach.
I graduated college with a hankering to travel. A contact in Nicaragua offered me free room and board to teach English, with a bonus of daily surf lessons.
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September 19th, 2008
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} John McCain is angry, confused and out of touch. He must not succeed in blocking important political change in America.
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McCain looking glum.
If elected, chances are that John McCain would preside over disasters far more bloody, expensive and misguided than those of President Bush.
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September 19th, 2008
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McCain looking glum.
If elected, chances are that John McCain would preside over disasters far more bloody, expensive and misguided than those of President Bush.
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September 18th, 2008
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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Without a common language, how can you communicate your feelings in an international relationship?
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Real communication is difficult / Photo BartPogoda
Travelers to Asia know the feeling.
A hundred pairs of eyes bear down on you, judging you, observing you. As a foreigner, you’re a tourist, a D-level celebrity, a possible criminal and a source of information on foreign affairs. You’re simply different.
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February 26th, 2008
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When I first arrived in Tokyo, I was sick, lost, and alone. I was also fifteen years old.
This was my first of many extended trips for work (I??m a model) and the decision to travel solo had been made at the last minute.
That evening, when I got off the bus in the wrong place after a severely delayed 13-hour flight, I had second thoughts, but ultimately traveling alone as a teenager turned out to be a seminal part of my youth.
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February 21st, 2008
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The years I’ve spent traveling and living abroad have made a radical impact on my world-view and shaped me into who I am today: someone who strives to make the world a better place.
I don’t hesitate to say that this is a common occurrence, and if you’re reading Brave New Traveler, you already subscribe to the belief that travel results in a deeper understanding of our global situation.
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January 23rd, 2008
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This New Year??s, I was horrified to read in The Hindustan Times that in Mumbai, India, outside of the JW Marriot Hotel, two women were felt up and groped by a mob of seventy men on the open street as their companions looked on helplessly.
The photograph on the front of the paper, showing the perpetrators piled up on top of the women, instilled in me a sense of outrage that I have not felt since I was in Thailand, and was assaulted by a mototaxi driver as I attempted to go to a job interview alone.
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December 27th, 2007
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It was a sunny Sunday afternoon in Corte Madera, California, at the closing ceremonies of the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference.
I was working on my fourth glass of complimentary champagne and talking to Matthew Polly, a faculty member and author of the travel/kung fu memoir, American Shaolin.
“Playboy!” I was saying, waving my glass for emphasis. “I don’t think I could even go into a store and buy a Playboy, let alone aspire to write for them someday.”
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