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Feature photo by Sean Rainer / Photo above by Computer Science Geek
From the Yogis to the Romantics, many have sought to live on the edge of society and explore those places that are uninhabited.
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Some will tell you that you can find the divine in a church, a temple, a mosque or a pagoda. That might work for you. It never has for me. Instead, I have found the divine in darkness.
The most powerful travel stories are like lanterns in the night, heart-felt reports from dark corners of the world where truth is obscured by poverty, war, totalitarianism or simple distance.
This sort of travel writing is often far more enlightening than even the best conventional, big-media journalism, which tends to lack both emotion and depth.
This edition of “Tales From the Road” features 5 stories that report from beyond the pale, and whose scope reaches beyond mere entertainment.
It??s been two years since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Slowly but surely, tourists are returning.
Coupled with the city’s old bag of tricks is a new draw card: the chance to glimpse New Orleans’ destruction firsthand.
But New Orleans isn’t the only place where suffering has turned into a tourist attraction. In New York, Ground Zero is the iconic memorial to the September 11 attacks.
Tags: Dark, Tourism, Bearing, Witness, Crass, Spectacle