“Good Digs in Timbuktu” By Nicholas D. Kristof (an excerpt) It was the slow train to Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso in West Africa, and it had just stopped at the border of the Ivory Coast. Among the mango sellers alongside the train, I found two Canadians who were headed in the same direction.…
The life and disappearance of Father Paolo Dall’Oglio and his travelers’ sanctum in Syria
Creative persistence: The art of writing (and finishing) better long-form narratives
By Rolf Potts Most any journey can, at moments, have a way of making a traveler feel like he’s navigating a blurred line between present and past. Walk through the urban slums at the outskirts of modern Mumbai, and you can get a sense for what New York’s Lower East Side might have felt like…
Marcia deSanctis on revisiting places, souvenirs, and travel as self-reinvention
I am happy to announce that my new book, The Vagabond’s Way: 366 Meditations on Wanderlust, Discovery, and the Art of Travel, will be released by Ballantine Books in October of this year, and is available for preorder from your favorite local or online bookstore. Information about promotions, book-tour events, and a tie-in Deviate podcast…
Every time you leave home, Another road takes you Into a world you were never in. New strangers on other paths await. New places that have never seen you Will startle a little at your entry. Old places that know you well Will pretend nothing Changed since your last visit. When you travel, you find…
On confronting discontent, travel as education, and how to write a Big Idea book.
Sophia Bentaher on her experience of hitching Europe in search of pastry recipes.
No one perhaps has ever felt passionately towards a lead pencil. But there are circumstances in which it can become supremely desirable to possess one; moments when we are set upon having an object, an excuse for walking half across London between tea and dinner. As the foxhunter hunts in order to preserve the breed…
Embracing uncertainty and discomfort as the pathless path to true success.
