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10 Vintage Spots Chock-Full of Old California Culture

Trazzler.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Contests, Writing Contests, Writers, Los Angeles History, Writing, Slidepollajax, Getaways, Southern California, La History, Travel Deals, Travel, Travel Writing, Old California, California History, Northern California, Deals, Socal, Trazzler Writing Contests, Vintage California, Norcal, La Getaways, Los Angeles News
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Here are ten only-in-California kinds of places where the Golden State's past is present.

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10 Smart Travel Ideas That Do Good

Trazzler.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Voluntourism, Responsible Travel, Trazzler Writing Contests, Travel, Trazzler, Smart, Ethical Travel, Making a Difference, Helping, Doing Good, Writing Contests, Volunteering, Travel Writing Contests, Slidepollajax, Travel Writing, Smart Travel, Megan Cytron, Sustainable, Ecotravel, Travel News
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Can travel make us better people? Can it make the world a better place? Is it possible to make a positive contribution to a community just by having t...

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View From the Top: 10 Transcendent LA Vistas

Trazzler.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: trazzler.com, Hiking, Hikes, Megan Cytron, Socal, Trazzler Travel Writing Contests, Meditative, La, La Getaways, Travel, Trazzler, View, Outdoors, Los Angeles, Mountains, Urban, Skyline, Nature, Meditation, Travel Writing, Travel Writing Contest, Relaxing, Slidepollajax, Los Angeles News
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The thrill of rising above the smog and sprawl and teeming humanity is a natural antidote to the stupor of urban drudgery. Luckily for Angelenos, stairs lead up and highways wind into the hills.

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V. S. Naipaul's "Gloomy Clarity" About Africa and Himself (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Literature, India, Religion, V. S. Naipaul, Radio Conversation, Nobel Prize Literature, Africa, Sir Vidia, Travel, Travel Writing, Christopher Lydon, Brown University, Religion in Africa, Books News
Christopher Lydon

V. S. Naipaul, in the winter of his long writing life, doesn't disguise his melancholy or his frailty. Still, his inquisitorial eye and his magic with a prose sentence have not abandoned him, nor the organ tones of his mesmerizing voice.

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Severed Body Parts! 12 Frightful Spots for Losing Your Head (PHOTOS)

Trazzler.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Funny, Grotesque, Contest, Severed Head, Writing, Severed Finger, Severed Body Parts, Slidepollajax, Weird, Travel Writing, Travel, Odd, Severed, Writing Contest, Travel News
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Let's start from the premise that the tourism industry is, quite frequently, a freakshow. And not just on Halloween... plenty of places keep it surrea...

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PHOTOS: 10 Strangest Roadside Enigmas

Trazzler.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Roadside, Writing, Slidepollajax, Travel, Trazzler, Travel Writing, Creative Writing, Writing Contest, Enigma, Driving, Contest, Highways, Weird, Travel News
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Jack Kerouac put it succinctly: "the road is life"--which could explain the haphazard collection of oddball phenomena that flanks our highways and by...

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Walk, Pray, Love: New Travelogue Explores the Redemptive Power of Walking: Interview with Author Mickey Mahaffey

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Bruce Chatwin, Walking, Asheville, Being the Diablo, Mexico, Glass Castle, Memoir, Travel, Travel Writing, Documentary Film, Rod Murphy, Born to Run, North Carolina, Travel News
Jeff Biggers

"Walking is a virtue," celebrated author and traveler Bruce Chatwin once wrote, "tourism is a deadly sin." For author Mickey Mahaffey, who will launc...

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Madagascar: West Knows Best

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Madagascar, Travel Writing, Missionaries, Christian Fundamentalism, World News
Valerie Tarico

Even people who hate colonialism recognize that we have information worth sharing. How can we ensure that the ideas being promoted are the best we have to offer?

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William Dalrymple: the Af-Pak Fiasco "on its last legs" (AUDIO)

Christopher Lydon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: India, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Richard Holbrooke, Af-Pak, Pakistan, Kabul, Travel, Taliban, Independence, Sepoy Mutiny, Hamid Karzai, Pashtun, Obama Foreign Policy, Foreign Policy, Nine Lives, East India Company, Jalalabad, Barack Obama, Asia Society, William Dalrymple, Scotland, Travel Writing, Foreign Affairs, Christopher Lydon, Imperialism, Politics News
Christopher Lydon

William Dalrymple is drawing on a deep well of personal and imperial history in his stark clarification of our American comeuppance in Afghanistan. ...

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Fiji: The Missionary's Position

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Christian Missions, Cannibalism, Travel Writing, Atheism, Fiji, Beqa, Christianity, Religion News
Valerie Tarico

The hubris of the missionary's position, either as part and parcel of the European colonial system or as part and parcel of the American Century, is inescapable once you notice it.

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Discovering Greece: Thessaloniki is Cooler Than You

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Tourist Attractions, Macedonia, Greek, Mount Olympus, Travel, Balkans, Archaeology, Loreena McKennitt, Athens, Culture, Tourism, Art, Northern Greece, Christianity, Travel Writing, Greece, Thessaloniki, Israel, Ilana Teitelbaum, World News
Ilana Teitelbaum

Thessaloniki is far from the classic tourist fantasy of Greece: there are no nearby islands, and Delphi and Athens are far away. But it is the country's cultural capital and the epitome of cool.

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Many Doors into Travel Writing

Terry Gardner | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: San Francisco, Travel Writing, Writing Conference, Corte Madera, Workshop, Book Passage, Writer's Workshop, Rolf Potts, Joel Grey, Pauline Frommer, Media News
Terry Gardner

If you really do have the ambition to write, a reputable writing conference can be a great place to get your feet wet or hone your skills.

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Fluff, Loathing, and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" in Travel Journalism

David Paul Appell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Chuck Thompson, Travel Writing, Travel, Lonely Planet, Thomas Kohnstamm, Travel Journalism, Tourism, Travel Media, Media, Media News
David Paul Appell

And as with many other industries, take it from this veteran: sometimes if you delve too deeply into how the sausage is actually made, you run the risk of losing your appetite.

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