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My Top 12 Lifetime Travel Experiences
Recently I was musing on all the incredible things I've seen and people I've met around the world — and how many amazing things still await me, as the more...
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Cultivating Stillness
There is too much rushing: past myself, in the world around me, in my own thoughts. I lose my centeredness: agendas prevail, thoughts collide, my self becomes lost. I must...
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The Benefits of Volunteering while Traveling
I admit it: I'm a travel junkie. I'm also a junkie for humanitarian causes. So when I can combine the two, the world just feels like a better place to...
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Educating Girls and Finding Purpose
Don't call Rocky Turner wonderful. Don't say how amazing the non-profit work she does is, or the great things she has accomplished, or how sweet and selfless she must be...
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How to Avoid Destructive Tourism
Traveling can be a big threat to the planet—both environmentally and culturally. There, I've said it. As much as those of us afflicted with wanderlust don't want to admit it,...
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An Underwater Ghost Town, Emerged from the Drought
It was a Central Texas town, settled in the 1850s along the banks of the Colorado River. There was a general store, a cotton gin, a school — even a...
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Top 5 Reasons to Travel Sustainably
Sustainable Travel is all about leaving a smaller footprint in the places we travel, both on nature and the people who live there. It's also called ecotourism, green travel, and my...
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48 Hours in Vientiane, Laos
When people arrive in Laos, the land-locked, slow-moving, peaceful country in Southeast Asia, they generally gravitate toward Luang Prabang as far as cities. But while a different vibe, the capital...
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They Call It Myanmar
I have never written a post on this blog two days in a row, until now. But I wanted to follow up on my piece yesterday about the beautiful, magical...
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Inle Lake, Myanmar: The Land that Time Forgot
The longboat glided silently through the water, as the narrow channel opened up into the large expanse of Inle Lake. The shores seemed very far away, their green mountaintops disappearing...
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