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TANZANIA

Someone Was Already Awake

Stories From the Road

Someone was awake before us every morning, making the coffee. That, more than the summit, is what I brought down the mountain.

Glimmers in the Wild: 120 Wooden Bridges, One Jaguar, and No Guide

Stories From the Road

I went to the Pantanal looking for small flashes of joy and came back with a jaguar doing zoomies, a hat that said something I did not intend, and the lingering smell of a very large stork.

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

Stories From the Road

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.

From Sequins to Sloths: Northern Brazil for the Chronically Curious

Stories From the Road

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.

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

Stories From the Road

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.

Patagonia, measured in Camp Italianos

Stories From the Road

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.

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

Stories From the Road

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.

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

Cultural Intelligence

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.

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

Travel Logistics

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

BALKANS

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KING GEORGE ISLAND, ANTARCTICA

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

Stories From the Road

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

KING GEORGE ISLAND, ANTARCTICA

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THE LIBRARY KEEPS GROWING

Six stories, all worth the detour.

Someone Was Already Awake

Glimmers in the Wild: 120 Wooden Bridges, One Jaguar, and No Guide

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

From Sequins to Sloths: Northern Brazil for the Chronically Curious

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

Patagonia, measured in Camp Italianos

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

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

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

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

More stories on the way.

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