What does pilgrimage mean in an age of instant communication and high-speed travel? わたしのチイサナココロ [i have a small heart] from Bajir Cannon on Vimeo.
Mysticism and Duality in the Peruvian Amazon
By Lindsay Valentin I Deep in the chest of the Amazon everything beats differently, dually. After some very hard travels, my partner and I finally landed in Iquitos. We took an off-road vehicle into the jungle to an indigenous port town called Nauta where we were loaded into a dugout canoe with a motor that […]
A Sleeved Heart’s Approach (New York City)
By Joshua Baker I pull my luggage around the side of an international market where the gurgling of a diesel engine stirs. Parked there is an obviously over-used white bus. The fenders over the tires are blackened with miles and it looks like it hasn’t been washed since the Van Hool C20’s were introduced circa […]
Reza at the Wheel (Turkey)
By W Goodwin Reza is driving. Ever since we entered Turkey he won’t let me drive, even when he’s dead tired, because “Women shouldn’t drive in Muslim countries.” No arguing with him, so I’m in the front passenger’s seat, half-awake, my thoughts rambling… I’m fine with Reza and his religion, but these old-world Muslims we’ve […]
Nomadic Matt: A Travel Writer Interview
Editor’s Note: I got to ask travel blogger, writer, conference organizer, and travel guru Matt Kepnes of Nomadic Matt some questions about travel, writing, and books (some of my favorite subjects, and, luckily, his too). *This article contains affiliate link(s). Any affiliate link means that I may earn advertising/referral fees if you make a purchase […]
Vanlife, Bikes, Verbier
By Sophie McKeand Photos: Andy Garside & Sophie McKeand Verbier is a renown ski resort for the rich and famous in the Swiss Alps but, visit there out of season and you can still experience intense downhill thrills, on a mountain bike. Visit there in your campervan and stealth park and you can do biking […]
The Best Of Times
By Sallie Lewis Longoria It’s coming on Christmas, and up and down my street, twinkle lights glow softly, like summer fireflies. While my own home will soon be decked for the holidays, the house next door remains dark and shuttered, a lingering reminder of what I lost. My grandparents – who I called Honey and […]
Breaking Into France
By Christopher Dill It was the early 1980’s, the first hip-hop movement was spreading throughout the U.S. and the world, and I was probably one of the few white breakdancers in America. I was absurdly old (26) do be doing it compared to the black teens who taught me, but breakdancing was my true […]
The Bilingual Brain
Editor’s Note: There is nothing that bridges personal distance as much as a shared language. I recently read an article on hyperpolyglots and the ease with which they can navigate new places because of their languages. I can barely manage two languages, but I’m working on it. Bilingualism has been shown to expand the mind […]
There are Bridges (Cape May, NJ, USA; China)
By Ingrid Anders A canal dredged from Cape May’s harbor to the Delaware Bay separates the old seaside resort from the rest of New Jersey. This is the kind of island Brooke wants to be—man made and cut off, so separated from the mainland she can forget she was ever part of it. The open […]