Posts from the Road

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A Swim in Lake Tanganyika

January 20, 2010
A Swim in Lake Tanganyika

I know I shouldn't complain about business travel to Africa. It’s always a rewarding experience. But it’s also an exhausting one. For nearly three weeks I had been waking up at 6, cleaning out my work emails, and leaving the hotel by 7. We would be on the road all day seeing projects. With...
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The Same Dirt

December 27, 2009
The Same Dirt

My mother crossed the border of the United States for the first time in her life two years ago. It was to visit me during one of my off-season excursions. When I owned the cafe on Chokoloskee Island in Florida, I often traveled in the summer months
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Stephen Bugno

December 26, 2009
Stephen Bugno

Stephen Bugno has been writing about travel ever since his mother made him keep a travel journal at the age of 9 on a family vacation to the southwestern United States. Since then his travels have taken him to four continents and his writing has been published in more than ten online and print...
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Working Notes from Rwanda

December 1, 2009
Working Notes from Rwanda

An international aid worker arrives in Rwanda for the first time and wrestles with the lingering aftershocks of the country’s 1994 genocide while trying to re-build present economic conditions and better the future.
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Along the Camino de Santiago

November 3, 2009
Along the Camino de Santiago

Usually the camino follows dirt roads, but at times I suffer the unforgiving impact of the pavement. Occasionally my way narrows into single-track, and I savor those moments. Wildflowers saturate the Andalucían spring. The waves of orange, yellow, and red make me smile when the pain in my feet demands otherwise.
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A Stroll through Odessa

October 19, 2009
A Stroll through Odessa

Odessa has a severely Victorian character about it; the lampposts, sidewalks and infrastructure are something out of 1812 Hyde Park. The train station and opera house are Crimean War-era. The parks are green and manicured. This place is fancy, European, cosmopolitan and cultivated.
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Ramadan in Kandahar

October 2, 2009
Ramadan in Kandahar

Ramadan is entering its final week and the holy day of Eid is beginning. The people here in Kandahar are much more observant of the traditions of Islam than anywhere else I’ve been. The fast is a true one, no drinking of water, eating of food, or smoking is allowed during the daylight hours....
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My First Nights in Nablus

September 18, 2009
My First Nights in Nablus

They told me the gunfire only rings out at night. But this morning, after sunrise, I woke up to loud clashes across town in the Al Ein refugee camp and the upheaval continued until 11am. Then we checked the internet for the story: Ma'an News reported that one Israeli soldier and an 18-year-old Palestinian...
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Minarets and Pigeons

August 10, 2009
Minarets and Pigeons

I had been trying to see the interesting sites that get neglected when you actually live in a historical place. My most recent touristy visit was to a minaret in the nearby town of Shiforkan...
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To Say We had been to Kosovo

July 20, 2009
To Say We had been to Kosovo

Gilbert Carlson takes us on an overland trip through the Balkans, hitching his way into the cars and homes of the generous people of Kosovo.
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