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The Question Every Solo Traveler Dreads “Are you dating anyone?” my well-meaning relatives always seem to ask, even though I’m sure they already know the answer. Often I want to say, “Yes! I’m dating Edinburgh right now. Or yes, I’m…
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Museum of the Rockies: Bozeman, MT When I was a kid, my family and I took “yearly family vacation” ski trips out west. (Yep. A bunch of southerners on skis…I blame my parents’ Yankee friends). Somehow, though, we never went…
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So I gave myself a haircut today, and then this story happened in my head…sorry for the bad pun. And the cliches. Yeah. When you asked me to cut your hair, I said yes without hesitation, even though I’d never…
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(for no particular reason, I’m imagining this story in a film-noir voice) Facade The morning started like any other. We’d stayed up late despite how early we had to rise; I woke up with my legs entwined with his, as…
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What can happen in a second — the car swerves: there’s the squealing brakes, the sound of a horn, “LOOK OUT”. You’re in freeze-frame as you roll onto the hood of the already dented red Civic. Your grocery bag splits,…
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The world is not a big place. I see the faces of friends long lost on strangers in foreign countries and I wonder: are our human genes only able to produce a finite number of physical traits? Or maybe doppelgangers…
Continue readingSometimes the best travel experiences happen by accident. My train ticket was an open return from “all London Terminals”. I assumed that meant all London Terminals (now why would I think that?), so I took the bus to the station…
Continue readingTwo weeks ago, I attended TBEX in Athens, Greece On Thursday, I read my TBEX guide on the plane. “Go to the Athens info booth in the airport,” it said, like the first clue in a scavenger hunt. But everything…
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Sleep it off “I have this thing for guys with circles under their eyes,” Sal smiled at me, creasing the sallow skin around her eyes. Then she took one last drag from her cigarette, stubbed it out in the ashtray….
Continue readingI got off the train in Munich at midnight, dodging drunk people Oktoberfest was in full swing, and the train station buzzed with activity. Rows of windows in the high industrial ceilings gave way to views of the dark sky….
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