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‘Almost Home’ by Githa Hariharan

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‘Almost Home’ by Githa Hariharan

Liminal Trains

Liminal Trains

5) Lots of beers.

“Shine”

‘I Married a Travel Junkie’ by Samuel Jay Keyser

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‘I Married a Travel Junkie’ by Samuel Jay Keyser

‘Down & Delirious in Mexico City’ by Daniel Hernandez

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‘Down & Delirious in Mexico City’ by Daniel Hernandez

How can it be that a tree blooms in winter?

How can it be that a tree blooms in winter?

‘The Odyssey, the most magnificent travelogue of all time, will concern us here…’

“They’re kissing!”

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‘Out of Steppe’ by Daniel Metcalfe

‘Cassady walked these tracks that February night in 1968. He’d stumbled into a wedding party in a nearby village…’

Ghost telegraph transmissions

Samosas and chai beyond the yellow-and-black railway station boards of Mughal Sarai, Jhansi, Itarsi, Guntakal, Arakkonam, Jolarpettai and Shoranur

Strengths of Somaliland

‘Long walk paradox #2: the walk really starts when you feel like you’ve already been walking forever.’

Fire at ‘the largest detention/correctional facility under private management in the world’

Parched lands and ‘slow, but forced, migrations’

‘…while sitting at my home in Washington, DC, I found myself with a sort of delayed-stress longing for the Taliban’

‘Since I’m both Indian and white, I might just get rich’