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I Drove Across Denmark to Watch a Million Birds Go to Bed
RUDBØL, DENMARK

I Drove Across Denmark to Watch a Million Birds Go to Bed

A last-minute trip to the German border for Sort Sol, the marshland murmuration that only does the famous part when something tries to eat it. Plus the falcon that never showed, and the correct way to cross the Fyn bridge.

Nancy Carleton
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From Sequins to Sloths: Northern Brazil for the Chronically Curious
SALVADOR, BRAZIL

From Sequins to Sloths: Northern Brazil for the Chronically Curious

When you are seeking that spark of life, you chase it. Carnaval in Salvador with 2.5 million people, a desert that fills with water every year, and six days on the Rio Negro with pink dolphins and one sloth with somewhere to be.

Nancy Carleton
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La Paz, whale sharks, and a sea lion who chose chaos
MEXICO

La Paz, whale sharks, and a sea lion who chose chaos

Wider than your sense of scale, moving with an ease that is almost funny once the initial shock wears off. Then the sea lions, who chose chaos.

Nancy Carleton
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Patagonia, measured in Camp Italianos
CHILE AND ARGENTINA

Patagonia, measured in Camp Italianos

Some people do vision boards. We did blisters. An accelerated W Trek over Christmas, a rainbow nobody deserved, and a New Year in the golden light at Estancia Bonanza.

Nancy Carleton
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The annual retreat, or what happens when you put a Mangalitsa fillet and a switchback road in a blender
MONTENEGRO

The annual retreat, or what happens when you put a Mangalitsa fillet and a switchback road in a blender

Montenegro's roads are about to get a quiet word from Nepal, Austria and Croatia. Narrow, one-way as a suggestion, with semi-trucks reversing down mountains.

Nancy Carleton
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Ghana asked us to wear all white. We complied. Eventually.
GHANA

Ghana asked us to wear all white. We complied. Eventually.

Denmark had just thrown the coldest winter in 16 years at us, the map had a gap, and we had a few days. Then we landed in a country where everyone was wearing white except us.

Nancy Carleton
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Fourteen days, twelve countries, one EV, and a gal who cannot be historically trusted to charge her own phone
BALKANS

Fourteen days, twelve countries, one EV, and a gal who cannot be historically trusted to charge her own phone

Copenhagen to Kosovo and back in an EV, with one Samoyed operating in an advisory capacity and a back seat that ended up looking like a small artisan jam factory in transit.

Nancy Carleton
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Whiskey on 10,000-Year-Old Ice and Chasing the Impossible: The Antarctica Marathon
KING GEORGE ISLAND, ANTARCTICA

Whiskey on 10,000-Year-Old Ice and Chasing the Impossible: The Antarctica Marathon

The honeymoon that became a four-year cancellation saga, and then the coldest, strangest, most beautiful race I have ever run. Four attempts, one pandemic, and an apartment marathon I recommend to nobody.

Nancy Carleton
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