Postcards from around the globe.
All posts tagged: narrative map
Make Believe by Rebecca Hart Olander
Make Believe We made a temporary home just up the hill from the Colosseum, walked the dusty track of ancient chariots, ate as if our lives depended on it, all manner of pasta with clams, beef, bacon, and lobster, Chianti from a basket- bottomed bottle, […]
Married by a Monk by Suzanne Farrell Smith
Angkor Thom, once a majestic walled city enclosing nearly four square miles of the Cambodian jungle, is now a complex of stunning ruins. Lively markets and inexpensive resort hotels surround the site, so tourists (like me) crowd in close. Angkor Thom’s monuments, terraces, and temples […]
Semantics by Linda Murphy Marshall
We do not take a trip; A trip takes us. -John Steinbeck One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things. -Henry Miller I was making plans to do a Swahili immersion in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, after […]
Pulang Kampung by Lauren Lang
Lauren Lang writes about homesickness for Jakarta after living in the States for college.
