Madain Saleh: Hitchhiking Through Saudi Arabia
When Things go Wrong: Impossibly lost in the desert, tailed by Saudi military, forced to hitchhike with strangers, all in search of Petra’s little-known twin city that was mysteriously abandoned.
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Family Survivor: A week in the Boundary Waters Wilderness
People are more likely to call this a social experiment than a vacation for a family that has never gone camping. They are taking my family and sending us to a remote island in the […]
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Famadihana, Madagascar: Dancing With Corpses and Turning Bones
I get a rare invitation to one of the world’s most bizarre ceremonies in Madagascar and find myself digging up corpses from the family’s graveyard to dance with them. The surprising meaning behind it still haunts me…
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Pictoral: Borobudur Temple at Sunrise
There are few things more spiritually peaceful in this world than Borobudur temple at sunrise. The Island of Java in Indonesia has historically been a cauldron of religious struggle and a holy land for the […]