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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
    • 218 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

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    • 54 Ratings
    • 2903 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
    • 583 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
    • 3031 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
    • 4638 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    My journey to Lhasa

    JULY 20, 2009 10:52AM

    By doloresflores_d


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

    • Editor's Pick
    • 5 Ratings
    • 411 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
    • 756 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
    • 897 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
    • 983 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
    • 912 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
    • 1096 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
    • 20427 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
    • 641 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
    • 738 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
    • 738 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
    • 668 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
    • 579 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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