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Along Bourbon Street, the night is reaching its crescendo. Groups of partygoers pass by scores of live-music joints overflowing with clientele. Men in red uniforms wheeling food carts serve the empty-bellied, while calling out their culinary offerings in thick Louisiana…
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“Let’s put this pedal to the metal,” proclaimed my driver in heavily-accented English as he ran his beat-up car along the gauntlet of turns on the Igman Mountain Road. Adam, a 20-something bed-and-breakfast owner, was full of mispronounced Americanisms and…
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Written on the doors to Grigor’s monastery, a tiny bachelor-sized hermitage located on an island nearly small enough to escape the gaze of spy-satellites, was a warning to casual intruders: NO LODGING HERE. I AM BUSY. Our impromptu guide, a…
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“So, this is your first time with us!” exclaimed Abdulrahman al-Anesi with a dose of laughter and feigned surprise. “May Allah bring you back again and again!” Al-Anesi, my airport pickup, whose jewel-bedecked jambaya dagger sat at his midsection like…
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The last thing anyone would expect to find in one of the most isolated outposts of humanity is a famous man. Meeting “Mr. Socks” – or “Dr Socks” as he prefers to be called – at the edge of a…
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