“As you read this, there is a man called Nico in a town named Puerto Montt carving life into the richest red wood you’ve ever seen.” Sydney Tammarine discovers the spirit of Chile through the carvings of a man named Nico.
A photo essay by Nathalie Handal, exploring the beauty of Kabul.
“I press my forehead against the cold glass as the bus moves onward, the sliver of land between highways, the dogs, it all collapses into nothing.” Elena Robidoux writes of disillusionment in Peru.
“Of course, the more I tried to get away from that past, the more I ran right into it.” M. M. Adjarian’s story of self discovery.
“Central American countries with the Pacific Ocean as their coastline are considered to lay “in a ring of fire”…known to have so-called “volcanic national parks.” Sankar Chatterjee shares his journey around the volcanoes of Central America.
“So on they talked freely, in their ignorant western European way, and though Moji seemed fine I knew why he didn’t speak.” Dakota Hall writes about passports and what some can do, while others cannot.
“As a child, I lived in other countries, way back in the 1960s, when it wasn’t common to see a child from Los Angeles attending a village school in a far off place — it still isn’t common, I’m sure.” Constance A. Dunn interviews Karen Hunt.
“We swivel our heads around until a diamond cuts through the waves. A diamond made up of dusky dolphins with silver stripes on their chins.” Nicolette Loizou swims with dolphins in New Zealand.
“Chicken nuggets are safe. But they’re fucking boring.” Arielle Sokoll-Ward writes about discovering herself in New Zealand after losing the love of her life for our Globetrotter series.
“Being a former slavophile and Yugonostalgic, Skopje represented a distant dream…” Maida Salkanović visits Macedonia’s “city of a thousand statues”.