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- The Little Burmese Tout in Training
- Bhitarkanika Sanctuary: An Indian Getaway Into the Wild
- Learning to Adventure from Daddy
- If Only The Teachers Could See Me Now
- My Father's Syria
- Driving in France
- Land: A World in a Word
- Telling Stories in Cornwall
- My Head Trip
- Fogous and Creeps in Cornwall
- Explosion on the Mountain
- In Search of Quiet
- Jules’s Very Dumb Day in Luxembourg
- The Plague Comes Back To Life
- The Children of Angkor
- Samba: From Berkeley to Brazil
- Mama Arli’s Due Date
- Would You Eat Your Lunch in a Cathedral?
- The World of Growing Things
- The Overnight Karaoke Bus From Hell
- Cowboy Boots on Chimney Rock
- Christmas in Kyoto
- Playing the Game
- PAUL'S PICKS: B-day by the Bay
- Inside Jamaica’s Blue Mountains: A Stranger in their Midst
- My Mission in Marseille
- Very, Very Short Mother's Day Stories
- My Kind of Wasteland
- Bride in the Attic
- Confessions of a Traveling Author
- Caught in a Mudslide
- Desert Revelations
- Floating on the Ocean
- Confessions of a Loser
- My Journey to the Union of Heaven and Earth
- My Journey to the Union of Heaven and Earth
- Borscht, Blintzes, Ballerinas, and a Near-Death Experience
- Fire, Candle, Drum, and Stones: A Sensory Experience
- Eat with Locals at Global Supper Clubs
- Death Valley Gave Me New Life
- Hunting the Wild Banana Blossom
- Diver Nightmare
- Confessions of a Tour Guide
- Take a Trip—Get A Life
- Communing With Oahu
- Searching for the Love Motel
- The Quest for La Baguette
- Q&A: Judith Fein, Author Of THE SPOON FROM MINKOWITZ: A Bittersweet Roots Journey to Ancestral Lands
- A Foreigner’s Food Epiphany in Spain
- Falling in Love with Wells Cathedral
- Can There Be A Perfect Christmas?
- Making Sense of Centimes
- Transportation As If People Mattered
- Clowning Around With Burmese Refugees
- An Expert Hacker in Amazonia
- PAUL'S PICKS: Toasts, possible ghosts and definitely interesting equipment.
- Meddling With Medieval Mysteries: Hiking through history in Southern France
- Typhoon Yolanda: “The Storm of the Century” and more to come
- Honduras, It's A Rap
- A Walking Tour of Prague
- Can Anyone Go Home Again?
- When Was The Last Time?
- Surf Survival, A Life Lesson
- Wild animals, savage people
- Welcome to Glastonbury, England
- Alcohol, Altitude And The Middle Class: I’m out of my depth.
- Meet Our New Partners, PerpetualExplorer.com
- WORLD FESTIVALS: Celebrating Ganesh Chaturthi In India
- Debt of Gratitude
- Discount Métro Passes
- What’s Adventure Travel Anyway?
- A Life Of Travel: Three Gifts from My Father
- Thoughts on Happiness
- Truffle Hunting in Alba, Italy: Tasty, tricky and sometimes tense.
- INSIDE EGYPT: Can We Choose Which Blood to Grieve?
- Heritage and Whisky in Scotland's Orkney Islands
- Seeking Retreat in Asturias, Spain
- A Musical Journey Through Spain
- A PRIVATE LOOK INSIDE EGYPT: What you don't hear about.
- Motorcycle Diaries in Vietnam
- Medellin, Colombia: Dance Capitol of My Heart
- Searching For A Hidden Western Algarve Beach
- Molokai - the most Hawaiian of islands
- In Pursuit of the Perfect Pasty
- A Wild Ride in the Dominican Republic
- What Happened in the Wilderness
- EGYPT REBORN: The Thoughts and Feelings of a 12-year-old Egyptian Girl
- All That Money Can Buy?
- What If We Didn't Go Home?
- Finding Courage in a Foreign Language
- Finding Mario Bollag
- The Doors (And Not The Ones You Think)
- Standing at the top of the Man-Made World
- A Sensational Time-Lapse Story in Barcelona
- What My Life Will Look Like at Seventy
- Ladakh, India: Without Words
- Vietnam’s Ha Long Bay: Surreal Doesn’t Begin To Do It Justice
- I Didn’t Order this Hooker
- The Trip I Didn’t Take
- TRAVELING ALONE: 25 Very Very Short Stories
- I Bought Myself a Wedding Ring in Siem Reap
- An American Male on the Make in Italy
- Searching for Culture at a Five-Star All-Inclusive Resort
- Song for Phil Spector
- Channeling City Slickers’ Billy Crystal for a Day
- Fish and Friendship in Tokyo
- Getting Potted in Minnesota
- SPECIAL OFFER: Win A Week In Mexico with Paradise Hunter
- Wild Moose Chase
- PHOTO ESSAY: Myanmar by Longtail, Trishaw and Tuk-Tuk
- Travel and True Love
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Namibia
- When You Wish Upon A Mound...
- Gorillas in the Missed
- Border Crossing
- Revelations at a Convent
- Shoots, Edits & Posts
- Have a Happy Crappy Christmas Catalonia-Style
- What If Something Happens?
- Here Comes Sandy
- Santa Claus is Coming to School
- Searching for Happiness with a child in Copenhagen
- Death by Earthquake (Kit)
- Traveling the Side Roads
- Adventures of a Cookbook Traveler
- Use It Or Lose It - A Tea Story
- Bathing an Elephant
- An Alien Universe
- Meeting the Sultan at Topkapi
- Today’s Learning Objective: Kill a Goat
- A Woman Like a Fort on Sullivan's Island
- Genuine or Hoax? Visiting a Crop Circle Formation at Avebury, England
- Zombie Boot Camp
- Visiting Ferdinand Marcos
- Black Jesus, Grilled Guinea Pig and the Damned Spanish
- Conspiracy on Malta?
- How I Left My Sensible Life
- Horny at the Taj
- In My Father's Footsteps
- What's Up with South Dakota?
- Omnivore’s Revenge
- Breaking Through
- Legend of the Betelnut Princess
- "What Color is Your Paris Shoot?"*
- Dancing With Martha Graham
- Confessions of a Slow Traveler
- Boquete Wife Fights
- Ten Tips To Stay Safe While Traveling Abroad
- An Innocent Goes To Las Vegas
- A Night at the Bates Motel
- The Magical Dunes of White Sands
- Sardinia’s Coastal Towers: The silent watchers
- Hippie Bob
- Belly Dancing in Bali
- Fat and Happy
- The Great Migration Outside My Window
- Spiritual GPS: Discovering holiness in every moment
- A Very Thai Massage
- In Wales, Nothing is Quite What it Seems
- The Primeval Waters of Bahia de Ascension
- Communing with the Garifuna in Belize
- Returning to Leyte Landing, For the First Time
- Honoring America's Fallen Soldiers in Normandy
- Lost In The Mail
- Turning Japanese
- Once Upon A Vine: A Unique Gathering of Grapes
- Searching for Sunrise in a Megalithic Cemetery, Ireland
- Running Aground in British Columbia
- Family Lost, Family Found
- FORBIDDEN: My Not So Excellent Adventure
- The Bosque Is For The Birds
- Hunting Higdens in Newfoundland
- My Day as a Pilgrim
- Whispers From The Past
- The Ghosts of Alamos
- Procrastination, Newton’s Law and Aretha Franklin
- The journey of a lifetime
- Shifting Sands in Rajasthan, India
- Paying It Forward on the Greek Isle of Alonissos
- The Philippines: New Life, New Priorities
- Very Very Short Valentine's Day Stories
- Leaving It All Behind
- China Observations: The More it Changes, The More it Stays the Same...and Sometimes Not
- Triathlon to Tree Pose: Discovering the Power of Breath in Mexico
- ASK THE CAPTAIN: New Pilot Crew Rest Rules. Will It Make Flying Safer?
- My Dream House
- ASK A TRAVEL AGENT: Newly Retired And Ready To Travel
- The Japanese Wave
- Meeting the Buddha in Sedona
- Quebec City and the Ghosts of my Parents
- Looking For Peace In A Mosque
- How to Publish a Travel eBook
- Getting Back to Basics in Newfoundland
- Mimi Goes to Sea in Bali
- Leaving Cancer in Paris
- Nine Mornings of Christmas
- Coffee Cult Comes to Catalonia
- Secrets Of A Paris 'Plus' Shopper
- CHIAPAS, MEXICO: Maya, Mother Nature, and More.
- Close Encounters of the Chopstick Kind
- Traveling Back Through Time in Taos
- KEEPING IT REAL: The Myth of Authentic Travel
- Jumping the Bull: Lies And Other Tall Tales in Ethiopia
- Maui to Maine and Back Again
- Roast Chicken in Tuscany
- Gluten-Free Wales?
- ASK A TRAVEL AGENT: The Question Every Traveler Wants to Know...
- Moving Back to the Old Home Town
- I'm A Citizen Of ...
- Living With Less
- Sister Road Trip
- On the German Relic Trail
- Facing Fear at Cave of the Cats in Western Ireland
- Travel Essentials: Things You Need. And One Thing You Don’t. 2011
- TRAVELS WITH FRANKIE: Discovering Pet-friendly Perks at Dateland, Arizona
- Seven Years Younger: Life On Ethiopia Time
- BikerBabe: Celebrating Three-Quarters of a Century
- My Three Worlds
- Tunisia: Beyond the Revolution
- A Car Named Cosmo
- The secret of Taos blue corn
- A Tropical Escape in the Pacific Northwest
- Two Ex-Pats in Girona, Catalonia
- Is It Safe To Visit Mexico?
- The Egyptian Revolution: What Does It Mean for the Jews?
- TUNISIA: How I Dipped A Toe In The Revolution
- TUCSON AFTER THE SHOOTING: To go or not to go?
- Montana on my mind
- First-Person Report From Egypt
- Discover the Exotic on a Road Trip
- Airport Therapy: Overcoming Shyness in Buenos Aires
- TUNISIA AFTER THE REVOLUTION: Why you will want to go
- 7 Least Romantic Places For Valentine’s Day
- Vegas Soul
- Peru: A feather for any birder’s life list
- Nicaragua: Can you keep a secret?
- Pledge of Peace
- Driving Myself Crazy Searching for the Ecological Solution
- No Trains, Planes or Buses Required
- Cycling through Lives
- How Anne Frank Eased My Travel Frustrations
- Nothing Says Christmas Like 130 Tubas
- Happiness Is Clean Water, A Room With A Bed, And Wi-Fi
- Global whining vs. Amsterdam
- Jack London and Me
- Islam Controversy Heats Up Dinner in Normandy
- Becoming A Fan
- Travel Is For The Birds
- The Things You Need And The Thing You Don’t
- Ask the Captain: TSA PAT-DOWNS: DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS THE PUBLIC DOESN'T KNOW
- WIN A BOOK: Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall
- WIN A BOOK: Bruar's Rest by Jess Smith
- WIN A BOOK: Tony Hillerman's Landscape by Anne Hillerman and Don Strel
- WIN A BOOK: Falconer on the Edge by Rachel Dickinson
- WIN A BOOK: Lost Angel Walkabout by Linda Ballou
- WIN A BOOK: The Mystery of Journeys Crowne by K. Michael Crawford
- WIN A BOOK: Powerful Places Guidebooks by Elyn Aviva and Gary White
- WIN A BOOK: Riding the Hulahula to the Arctic Ocean by Don Mankin and Shannon Stowell
- WIN A BOOK: Digital Storytelling by Carolyn Handler Miller
- WIN A FREE BOOK: Life Is A Trip by Judith Fein
- WIN A FREE BOOK: Morning Light by Nancy King
- WIN-A-FREE-BOOK-CONTEST CELEBRATES YOURLIFEISATRIP.COM AUTHORS
- Manatee Hormones
- A Chocoholic Falls off the Wagon
- My Spiritual Journey
- Trying To Make Sense of ‘The Great War’
- Ask The Captain: Is My Pilot Flying Drunk?
- From Africa With Love
- Living Life Barefoot On the Yoga Mat
- A HIKING TALE
- Scotland - Where Dream Meets Reality
- Looking for Paradise? It may be closer than you thought.
- A Backup Plan: Don’t Leave Home Without One
- Migrating South
- My Life As A Clown
- Certified Extra Virgin
- Farewell, My Home Sweet Home
- It’s Not Spain, It’s Pais Vasco
- Searching for Vikings in Norway
- The Lost Maya City
- On the Road with THE GHOST OF TONY HILLERMAN
- The Alignments in Carnac, Brittany, France
- An Existential Backpack Trip on the Olympic Peninsula
- Many happy returns
- California Redux
- Thorns are gonna eat'em alive
- A TROPICAL HOLIDAY IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST
- Powerpointless
- Ask the Captain: An open note to JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater
- Balancing Rocks
- Kenya: Rules of the Wild
- New Life in the Yucatan
- Win A Travel Photography Scholarship to Bhutan
- Cambodia Off the Beaten Track
- LIFE IS A TRIP: THE BOOK
- Healing at Saint Onenn’s Holy Well, Brittany
- Q & A: Judith Fein, author of Life Is a Trip: the transformative magic of travel
- The Black Virgin of Rocamadour
- YourLifeIsATrip.com Wins SATW Awards
- Horseback Riding Off The Grid
- Portugal: Pack Your Appetite
- The Spirit and Spirits of Portugal
- Portuguese Royalty and My American Family
- Portugal In Pictures
- SPOTLIGHT ON: Portugal
- A Journey Through Hallowed Ground
- The Gran Sabana of Venezuela
- The Lost World of Venezuela
- A Ghostly Adventure
- My Wife is Married to the Military
- The Lesson of a Persistent Little Beggar
- Poetry is for sissies
- Joey and The Wrath of God
- Mother Goddess and Me
- The Prius & American Flag Index: How to tell where you are
- Coffee Rituals Around the World
- Airing Dirty Laundry on the Road
- Ghosts of Soldiers at Anzio
- Newfoundland: Three Lifetimes in Three Days
- Echoes of Our Ancestors in Cape Coast Castle
- Fear and Longing in Scotland
- Arizona Shoots Self in Foot with Concealed Weapon
- The Camino de Santiago: An Inner and Outer Journey
- Married to the Military
- Leonardo's Vision
- Icarus and The Iceland Volcano: A Pilot’s Inside Scoop
- Arizona and the Ethics of Travel Writing
- YourLifeIsATrip.com Contributors Win Awards for Writing Excellence
- OZ On The Water
- My personal Glacier Bay
- Win A Carbon-Neutral Wedding to the Cook Islands
- Gypsy Memories
- Maxx and Me: Staying afloat on a mother-son cruise
- Under the Volcanic Ash
- Dressing for a Jerusalem Wedding
- Helicopter Mom To The Rescue
- Dear John: My Springtime Love Affair with John Deere
- Searching for Shakespeare
- Step Back from the Baggage Claim
- Hidden Venice Beach: A Walking Tour
- Slaying myths through travel
- Trippin' Sans GPS
- Why I Love My Job In Istanbul
- How Slum Tourism Can Change Your Life
- Pacific NW Travel Writers Conference: Travel & Words 2010
- Confessions of a Cemetery Junkie
- In A Pig's Ear
- I Heard The Call of Girona
- Embracing Mercury Retrograde
- Win Your Dream Adventure
- Break a Taboo, Save the Water
- No, I Don't Speak Spanish
- Blood On His Hands
- China's Wild Wall
- America’s Secret War Effort
- My Main Man Meows
- Walking in the Dark
- Lunar Standstill at the Calanais Stones
- My Furry Valentine
- Jamming in your Jammies in Alabama
- Recession Economics
- Surviving Financial Disaster by Giving Something Away for Free
- Elephant Seal Love on the Beach
- Dreaming of Fresh Corn
- Nightmare on Craig’s List
- The Ski Report from 2025
- A STRANGE URBAN CANADA GOOSE STORY
- Ask the Captain: Jamaica Airplane Crash
- The Personality of Waves
- Dental Tourism: Getting Drilled in Bangkok
- Zen and the Art of Doing Nada
- Power Places
- The Art of the Travel Journal
- How to Survive a Family Visit
- The Luxe Life for Less
- Chasing Fairy Tales In The Dordogne
- Ask the Captain: What about the Christmas Day Bomber?
- The World of Imperfection
- Fear not, travel more
- Traveling through Grief
- Trippin' forward into 2010
- Peace and union for all
- The Secret of My Writer’s Block
- The Dozen Best Kept Secret Swiss Travel Tips For North Americans
- A CHRISTMAS STORY IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, TEXAS
- The Two Walls of Israel
- Travel Writer 2 Travel Apper
- Tripping at the Dentist
- Cancer Diagnosis: No Chirps, Please
- A Hand that reaches out to Arabs and Jews
- Kandinsky and Kindness in New York City
- A Sixty-Year Love Story from Morocco, Israel and France
- VACATIONS ARE A NECESSITY, NOT A LUXURY
- Life: The Greatest Journey
- Noises Off!
- Ask the Captain: Which is the safest seat on an airplane?
- The Night Train to Gaspe
- Armchair Travel
- Another Old Codger in Vegas the Envy of All
- Listening to My Inner Kid On A Pacific Northwest Walk
- ASK THE CAPTAIN: Frightened by turbulence
- Now Playing in Paris
- Wine & Stein[beck]: It Happened in Monterey
- Suddenly Seeking Sunshine
- Up, Up and Away: Lessons Learned in the Clouds
- Ask The Captain: What Was Going On With Those Northwest Airlines Pilots?
- TRANSFORMATION IN KENYA
- Trip Tips for Coming Home
- Gifts In Odd Packages
- What's So Spiritual About Sedona?
- TRAVELING TO THE LAST FRONTIER
- FALLING IN LOVE WITH AN ARROYO
- Staying Sane in Segregation
- 10 Ways to Start Your Day around the World
- Virtual vs Real: Out There In The Real World
- ALIENS IN PUERTO RICO
- They paved paradise and put up an all-inclusive resort
- H i s t o r e c t o m y
- Look North, America
- American ambassadors in Arab lands
- Slumdog Millionaire – The story Hollywood left behind
- A WOO WOO TALE
- You Cruise, You Lose
- Air Travel Madness
- Keep the Americans out of Cuba
- I do not love Venice
- Killing whales loudly, with their song
- CONFESSIONS OF A CLAUSTROPHOBIC FLYER
- Living With What Is No Longer Mine
- DRAMA AT THE 99cent store
- RIVER MADNESS
- The Future is Plastic, Son
- Masters of the Universe
- Are We There Yet?
- Fresh Eyes
- THE INTIMATE MUSINGS OF A NEW YORK CITY TAXI DRIVER
- THE TRAVEL WORM HAS TURNED
- Alone at the Louvre
- 40 States in 40 Days: The Ultimate Class Trip
- AAA and Mobil have their tastes, I have mine.
- Flying High
- BUGS, BANKS, and GUNS
- Hidden Encounters With Saudi Women
- Final Move Home
- HAWAII REVISITED
- IF YOU CAN MAKE IT HERE...
- Mama Mia! Enjoy the trip
- Mama Mia, Indeed
- My Mother, Who Had No Age
- I Don't Want to Die, Mom
- There's A Whole World Out There
- A Difficult Birth
- Waiting for the Burglar
- Just Because You're Poor Doesn't Mean You Have to be Stupid
- Not Exactly a Hallmark Card, Mother
- Mom's Story
- Everybody's Jewish Mother
- My Shrink, the Bike
- The Reluctant Shaman
- Long Life's Journey To Home
- Yes, I pray—but not to your god
- LIKE A ROLLING STONE
- Big Sky, Big Drama: It's Not Easy Being Dude
- Dead And Dragged Out On The Throughway: Is this really a better way to go than by air?
- The Nonfiction Novelist
- Summer at Moon Palace
- Boycott Mexico? No, boycott American stupidity
- French Camp Failure
- Easter and Passover Different
- 'Within the Walls' of Elegance and Hospitality
- Vegas On The Cheap
- Stalking Karl Rove
- A Year On The Ground: Riding the Rails
- Skiing and Me
- The Theory of Flight
- A Year On The Ground: Rail Riders
- A Room with a Tub
- Nothing Says Love Like Bacon Grease
- It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Giant Slug?
- Learning to Navigate Airport Security
- Apologize to Vegas? Never'
- Taiwan, Hong Kong and the world's best Chinese food....
- A Potter's Life
- Cuban Journey to Israel
- Who Are We Keeping Out?
- How I Spent my Winter Vacation
- A Year On The Ground: If You Can’t See My Mirror, I Can’t See You
- Dem Big Cats
- A Year On The Ground: Motel 0
- A Cautionary Tale
- A Year on the Ground: And Now a Blast from the Past
- A Year on the Ground: Abandoning air travel? Sticking to the ground? Am I crazy?
- Ditching Stress — An experiment
- Zen and the Art of Doing Nada
- Nature Nurtures In The Amazon
- A year on the Ground
- Staying home for the holidays
- Hanukkah Behind Bars
- TRAVEL TO TUNISIA
- Year End Thoughts
