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    • 9 Ratings
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    Looking Up in Grand Canyon

    OCTOBER 26, 2011 4:25AM

    By Dorri Olds


    Topics: grand canyon, mother daughter, hiking, love, waterfalls, adventure, personal essay

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    • 1 Ratings
    • 285 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    It Is Always Show Time

    JULY 6, 2011 6:48PM

    By Claudia Sternbach


    Topics: adventure, unique, characters, home, transit, upper west side, help, scene, travel, observation, reading, contemplative, solitary, white noise, walk, stroll, sidewalks, city, heat, ny, new york

    • Editor's Pick
    • 54 Ratings
    • 3396 Views
    • 58 Comments
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    A Necklace of Birds

    JUNE 22, 2011 9:45AM

    By Bellwether Vance


    Topics: home, lotus eaters, the odyssey, adventure, sailing, family, mothers, sons

    • Editor's Pick
    • 4 Ratings
    • 662 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Kayak: One Word, One Life

    DECEMBER 6, 2010 10:53AM

    By Holly Robinson


    Topics: death, life, grief, parents, parenting, marriage, afterlife, navy, adventure, travel, joy, meaning, work, birthdays, mourning, philosophy of life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 24 Ratings
    • 3347 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    American Fool in the Khyber Pass

    JULY 14, 2010 5:09PM

    By Les Braunstein


    Topics: near death experience, seventies, sixties, hippies, horse, pakistan, khyber pass, afghanistan, travel, adventure, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 15 Ratings
    • 5160 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    My journey to Lhasa

    JULY 20, 2009 10:52AM

    By doloresflores_d


    Topics: where are you patrick wallace of quebec, spitters will be ticketed, don't forget not to bring any corpses in your luggage, sepha, josie ortez, josephine ortez, dakinidancer, tibet, travel, memorial, birthday, mortality, memory, alexandra david-neel, feminists, travelers, religious pilgrims, love, adventure, filthy vacations, everyone needs autobiographical stories that reminds us of our ability to be brave

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 531 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    Faces of Turkey

    MAY 6, 2009 8:49AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: open call, photos, sean paul kelley, adventure, travel, turkey, sanliurfa

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 812 Views
    • 3 Comments
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    A Silk Palimpsest

    MAY 3, 2009 8:20AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: open call, sean paul kelley, photos, adventure, silk road, travel, urfa, turkey

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 949 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    Parades, Protests and Stunning Vistas

    APRIL 5, 2009 12:23PM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: istanbul, taksim, sean paul kelley, travel, turkey, adventure, protests, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 1 Ratings
    • 1215 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Ibrahim Rouza

    MARCH 15, 2009 4:11AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: sean paul kelley, adventure, india, bijapur, architecture, karnataka, travel, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1052 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    The Shahis Of Bijapur

    MARCH 14, 2009 3:37AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: sean paul kelley, india, karnataka, bijapur, adventure, travel, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 13 Ratings
    • 1186 Views
    • 10 Comments
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    Near Death In a Foreign Land

    MARCH 5, 2009 10:56PM

    By Ben Sen


    Topics: adventure, travel, pakistan, ben sen's memoirs

    • Editor's Pick
    • 16 Ratings
    • 27624 Views
    • 19 Comments
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    Wife goes for Chinese Foot Massage --No Happy Ending

    MARCH 2, 2009 1:10PM

    By Gail Walter


    Topics: wife, happy ending, chinese foot massage, china, marriage, relationship, personal, adventure, travel

    • Editor's Pick
    • 7 Ratings
    • 809 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    An Update From India

    FEBRUARY 11, 2009 9:19AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: sean paul kelley, india, tamil nadu, kerala, adventure, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 8 Ratings
    • 783 Views
    • 9 Comments
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    In The Land Where "All Is King"

    DECEMBER 21, 2008 2:08AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: lake toba, indonesia, sumatra, sean paul kelley, travel, adventure, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 818 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Multi-Culture Shock

    DECEMBER 14, 2008 9:07AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: open call, roadies, technology, singapore, laos, vietnam, bangkok, life, road trip, thailand, cambodia, south east asia, travel, random musings, sean paul kelley, adventure, malaysia, penang

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 728 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    The Sleeper Bus

    NOVEMBER 24, 2008 12:21AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: adventure, travel, vietnam, bus, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 3 Ratings
    • 662 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    A Vietnamese Pastoral

    NOVEMBER 23, 2008 9:27AM

    By Sean Paul Kelley


    Topics: vietnam war, ruins, cham empire, vietnam, travel, adventure, beauty, farming, rural, urban, uxo, wildlife, photos, open call

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