Tag: travel essay
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American Expat Praises Brilliant Aussie Beach Feature: ‘Pleasantly Surprised’
American Expat Sees Noosa Beach Through Fresh Eyes When you uproot your life half a world away, you go looking for the everyday miracles you missed back home. For Lex B, an American expat now living in Brisbane, those small but meaningful discoveries arrive with a salty tang and a sunrise glow. Almost two years…
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Bachelor’s Diary: The Day the Bachelor Met His Match
Introduction: A strange invitation for a quintessential bachelor When you’re tagged as a “bachelor” for long enough, the label begins to feel like a weather system dragging behind you. So I boarded a flight to Agra, India, not to prove something about love, but to test a theory. What happens when a self-proclaimed lone wolf…
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I found devotion at a Christian camp, but it wasn’t to God
Introduction: A different kind of devotion Travellers’ new My Happy Place series invites writers to reveal the holiday destinations they cherish the most. In this installment, I stumbled upon a form of devotion at a Christian camp that surprised me: devotion wasn’t directed toward a deity, but toward people, purpose, and the medicinal quiet of…