Travel Essay: We drove to Mentone on a whim. The town sat within a safe distance of our Alabaster, Alabama home in the event of a catastrophe, but far enough away to forget the sounds of ambulance sirens and train screeches. My husband Jacob and […]
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In The Belly Of The Whale by Lance Garland
Travel Essay: Cuba The map at the front of the decades old bus looks like a humpback whale, diving away from the United States, the harpoon of Florida. We’ve been on this bus for over six hours, on our way to Trinidad in the center […]
Red Berries by Shelli Rottschafer
Dot Your I’s with a Heart: A Retrospective Kerri. Shelli. Bradi. I stood sandwiched between my two cousins closest in age. Kerri, my maternal cousin led two years older and, Bradi, my paternal cousin, trailed one year younger. Three cousins whose common link was the […]
A Different Set of Stars by James Agombar
Travel Essay: August 2011, I travelled on to the remote capital of Port Vila, Vanuatu. My partner Rachel was due to fly home though. At the time we couldn’t hold back the tears and although it was already planned, I hadn’t anticipated on having to leave […]
The Power of a Place by Meg Freer
Travel Essay: It’s the kind of place you would never know was there. The kind of place you only stumble upon by accident while meandering around back streets and alleyways during the type of late-night exploration one can’t do safely in a North American big city. […]
