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How to use a guidebook

Meet travel’s new MVP (same as the old one) While working for Lonely Planet for nearly 15 years, I researched guidebooks in Siberia and Transylvania, trained at Mountie boot camp in…
PUBLISHED: April 23, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2178 words)

On Homesickness and Long-Term Travel

A recent article in Smart Set caught my attention. Reviewing Susan J. Matt’s history of homesickness in America, Jessa Crispin uses the subject as a springboard for her own travels and…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1820 words)

What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?

I took the SAT a grand total of one time when I was in dipshit prep school. This was 1993. Like any other kid, I wanted to do well on the test, primarily so that I would NEVER have to take it again,…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3431 words)
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