“It looks like I am now the African and you the European” he says, arms folded over a dishevelled white t-shirt, shoulders perched against a Karite (Shea) tree. The butter fromwhich soothes the calloused palms of African drummers. Fabrice steps in as translator for a […]
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Van Life: Exploring the Northwest with two dogs and a cat called Stevie
Excerpt from Van Life, a finalist in the 2018 NM/AZ Book Awards and 2017 Grand Winner of the NW Book Festival Contest. Chapter One: STUNNER PASS, COLORADO Is this what they call a midlife crisis? The Huffington post describes it as a “dreaded period of […]
Good Days/Bad Days by Sarah Leamy
We woke up as the sun came over the snow capped mountains. I opened the doors and Harold and Rosie ran outside to sniff and pee next to Elk River, full of snowmelt and tree trunks flashing past our campsite. The sun warms me as […]
Le Mercantour by Paul Jackson
Right, here we are then, at La Madone de Fenestre, almost 2,000 metres up in the French Alps, with the Col de Fenestre the only thing separating us from Italy. This was once a Roman sanctuary, then the home of the Black Monks in the […]
What Remains: Cebu after the Storm by Brooke Hardwick
Travel Story: Acres of sand greeted me on the morning I woke in Cebu. Arriving on the midnight flight from Hong Kong, my Filipina host and her German husband had collected me from the airport. For three hours our trinity had driven north into darkened […]
The Secrets of the Darién Gap by Marimac McRae
Travel Essay: The waves tossed our narrow canoe up like a little kid being thrown by her father in a swimming pool. The heat of the sun painted our forearms sizzling red, but the waves cooled us off as they tossed themselves into our canoe […]
