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Whether it’s Utah or Iceland, something about a seemingly endless and open road makes me want to travel.1Ruta 23, ArgentinaThis view of Mt. Fitz Roy on the road into Chaltén, Patagonia, Argentina, has become one of the most iconic images of South America. Perhaps even more open than the road into Chaltén is the Ruta 40 (pictured further down), Argentina& 39;s principal North / South highway, still unpaved in sections.
The ultimate Ireland road trip, in pictures - Our SiteFOR ME, the real Ireland is on the back roads. That’s the green isle I envision when I close my eyes, winding around its rocky coastline on tiny lanes lined with centuries-old stone fences. And that’s exactly what my fellow MatadorU faculty member Candice Walsh and I did this spring on a quest to uncover her Irish heritage.
In 1993, Pearl Jam put on a show in Indio, California, as an “up yours” gesture towards Ticketmaster, the corporation controlling most of the region’s music venues.Empire Polo Club had never hosted a concert before, and the town itself was at that time best known for its date palms and proximity to places people actually wanted to visit.
Wade Davis is describing the Sacred Headwaters, his words rolling like the wave trains of the Stikine. “Fidelity to place,” he says and I feel that longing, that insatiable ache.I have never had that fidelity to place. My life has been dedicated to the art of packing, to storage units and cardboard boxes.
MY WIFE ANITA and I walked wearily, as if in a trance, beneath the hanging yellow signs and brushed aluminum fixtures of Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport. Bleary eyed, looking ahead, silent. The call had come just after midnight on Monday. It was Orsolya, Anita’s sister, and as if she already knew, Anita cried out, “Anya!
You’re sitting in a hostel in Marrakech and that perfect curly-headed Coloradan with gorgeous eyes plunks down beside you; a few days later, you’ve agreed to travel together, and a few months later, you’re holding hands and pretending you’re married when you try to check into hotels in India. You’ve traveled together, seen each other drunk, and had some really intense moments…but now the bloom is starting to wear off the rose.
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Most of us have been there: hiking up a mountain to a 360-degree view, or kicking back on a white sand beach fronted by sapphire-blue water. You think, “this is the most amazing place in the world.” At least I do. The second thing I think is, “where did I put my camera?”Soon, images of the most incredible place on Earth are streaming onto my memory cards.
