How to Drive Like a Californian
by Mark Simborg
Every region of this country comes with a unique type of driver. These are people born and bred there, or unrecent transplants, and the way they drive has little to do with who they are as people an
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Sunoko Desu
by Karen Shimizu
In the bottom drawer of the dark cherry wardrobe that stands in my mother's kitchen, nestled between sweet-smelling beeswax candles and soft cloth napkins, lies a nine-by-nine-inch square of wood, air, and dull white cotton thread. This plain
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Travels to a Distant World
by Norm Scott
They say traveling to far away places can be broadening. But sometimes the longest journeys are not measured in miles.  An invitation to attend a luncheon sponsored by the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research required preparations worthy o
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Island Rains
by Vinny Senguttuvan
Soon after the British discovered the Andaman and Nicobar Islands—a strip of miniscule tropical islands seven hundred miles from the Indian mainland—they built a huge jail. A high security, a la Alcatraz prison where they sent the radi
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An Unexpected Travel Lesson
by Karen Shimizu
“Well,” my husband said. “If Tbilisi is ever overrun by zombies, the man with the semi-automatic pistol will protect us.”I looked at him blankly. What man? (The other question—what Tbilisi zombies?—
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Around The World On A Pair Of Boots
by Vicky Oliver
A couple of years ago, I accidentally discovered that wearing purple cowboy boots spurred six new people in Manhattan to talk to me every single day, a benefit when it came to job-hunting. I had purchased the boots on a trip to Barcelona that summ
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Christmas in Paradise
by Adam Blackman
We realized the minute we stepped into the grocery store that Kauai was going to be different from Big Island.  The open-air market in Hilo had been a veritable showroom of Hawaiian agriculture (kava root, noni, and my favorite, rambutan, whi
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Becoming a Hoosier
by Margel Smit Nusbaumer
About four months ago, I moved from New York City to Bloomington, Indiana. Fourteen hours away from my hometown, Manhattan, and solidly in the Midwest—a place that still seems terrifyingly foreign anytime I venture outsid
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Layer Cake
by Vinny Senguttuvan
On a morning crisp as sandpaper, I step out of the plane onto Argentina. The Southern hemisphere. The tropic of Capricorn. I left New York on a Spring night to arrive at Buenos Aires on a Fall morni
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Praha Go Bragh-ha
by Norm Scott
Prague (Praha in Czech) and Budapest
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