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Latest Issues

Kiss the Andaman

Baby green turtles, eight centimeters long.

When my daughter was about six, I taught her an important family tradition. It was one I had made up long ago to give ritual meaning to the things I did while traveling.

The tradition is that w...

11 days ago
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Derelict City In The Jungle

One of the old British telecommunications buildings, Bolama.

In colonial times, coastal West Africa was a constant battleground between the European powers. Control of ports and river outlets was the key to controlling trade from the conti...

a month ago
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Big Island of Monkeys

The Moa River, looking from Tiwai toward Cambama village.

Joshua was wedged in the front with a woman sitting halfway on his lap. Not for fun, but because the front passenger seat in a West African share taxi is usually sold as double occu...

a month ago
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Black Rocks on a Mototaxi

A mototaxi driver’s foot.

Off the chattering bus into silence. Late afternoon, rusty edges on the clouds. Cacuso, population 58,000, looks smaller than I imagined. The concrete-framed buildings along the main thoroughfare give way to a co...

a month ago
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Flags of Loyalty in the Empires of Memory

When the bus stopped in Tomboco, I knew something was up. There was no roadside market or restaurant, just packed earth and random buildings. The driver opened the rear engine compartment and threw a bucket of water over the sizzling belts...

2 months ago
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  • Brad Yonaka

    Bringing you the more interesting bits of flotsam and jetsam of my travels. At the moment, my articles and notes are being published on my linked page 'Odyssey and Meaning'.

  • Matthew David Nelson

    Travel Writer and Film Photographer from Des Moines, IA | Published in National Geographic Traveller Magazine, Rough Guides, and Get Lost.

  • Dave Paquiot

    Essays on Politics and Culture and all the places they intersect — written in four languages from the margin. EN · FR · PT · ES. Entre línguas · Entre mundos · Entre les climats

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