1-Way Ticket

A walk-n-talk works like this: gather 5-10 curious, kind, generous, patient, inspiring people and set a walking course through the countryside for a week, plus or minus a day or two. A week works well because it may take a day or two or three for people to open up, for the so-called “situational extroverts” to fully emerge from their shells, for th... See more

The barrio is a pinball machine of cultures and characters. It can feel frenetic and claustrophobic. But barrio life is a series of trade-offs: With the shuddering bottle bank collection at midnight, there are freshly-washed streets at dawn. With drunken revellers announcing their arrival home as others begin their day, there is 24/7 foot traffic a... See more

Not Chile, not Peru. Not Jamaica or Brazil or Madagascar, or even the unspoilt, rugged country along the south-eastern coast of Corfu. Not Sicily, not Tuscany. No orchards or olive groves, or some remote village pleasantly untouched by a tourist footprint. Not even to Morocco, or Tunisia, or some other shore along a different, browner continent tha

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