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Blogging while you travel can enrich your journey in more ways than one.
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You've made it to the major city where you have to lay over before boarding for your destination.
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A stranger on a bus proves that the simplest gifts can be the most meaningful.
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This tells the story of the crowded, slow, inefficient trains in South Africa, which low income people ride each day, sharing stories, laughter, friendship and a joy for life in one of the most unexpected of places.
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A narrative account of a particular child who simultaneously made me feel ineffectual and hopeful that I met while traveling and volunteering in the small eastern town of Hohoe, Ghana.
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My Canadian accent made a street full of Rwandans think I was crazy. It's the fleeting travel encounters that are unforgettable.
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A chance encounter that I experienced when I visited Europe as a chaperone on a school trip during spring break (I am a high school teacher in Montreal, Quebec).
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I'm frequently asked why I keep an old Egyptian Pound encased in an acrylic brick frame on my desk. It is my most prized possession, a reminder to look upon strangers as precious family members I have not met, and a potent symbol of what traveling can teach us.
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A Canadian woman discovers a new world inside Shanghai when she buys herself a cheap bicycle.
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A development mission to El Salvador shatters previously held notions of traveling and the west's relationship to the developing world.
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This is a true story of how two young street children in Lhasa, Tibet, changed my life. They taught me how to turn anger into compassion.
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