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Olympics for the Addicted Traveler

Iran faces Kyrgyzstan in the koshti pahlvani semifinal.

The stocky, emotionless woman stands facing her opponent, though her eyes are fixed somewhere in the far distance. Her coach stands behind her, shouting in her ear and slapping both s...

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Moving Through the Angolan Planalto

Ruins of a hilltop fortress in Quibala.

The fourth installment in a series on Angola, which I visited in early 2026. This article may be truncated in email; if so, please click on ‘view entire message’.


Not to belittle a landmass,...

16 days ago
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Color and Revelry in Kyrchyn Valley

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The taxi driver, as we discovered, was correct. Police were indeed setting up barriers....

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Game On in Kyrgyzstan

Two things occurred to me as I walked out of the Bishkek terminal. First, everything looked shiny and orderly. It had that ‘new airport’ smell. Real money had recently been spent here. The foreign visitor’s first glimpses had been upgraded....

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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...

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'.

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

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    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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