My interviews from the Pacific Northwest were complete. I was heading home. Driving the hundreds of hundreds of miles back[…]
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Janice at an Ecuadorian Orphanage, Finale: Top 9 Traits Needed
She shared about the children (who were a handful) and the scenery (which was breathtaking). Now Janice reflects on her[…]
Read moreInside the Isolate: A Minnesota Man Visits North Korea
Week 3 of reader-contributed travel stories takes us to an unlikely location–perhaps THE unlikeliest. North Korea: For this story, I interviewed[…]
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A Day Above the Clouds (from a Duluth woman in Ecuador)
WELCOME to the first of a series of travel stories sent in from friends and readers of The Periphery. For 2016[…]
Read moreHome and Full-Circle with the Ugandan Father and Sons
Woozy and waiting, I stood along the sidewalk outside the Minneapolis airport baggage claim. Soon I saw my friend[…]
Read moreMwanza: A Monkey-filled Hike to One Incredible View
Having by now showed me an abandoned (but not eerie) cemetery, as well as some locals living off the land[…]
Read moreViews of Mt. Kilimanjaro: Goodbye to Arusha and Hello to a New Adventure
Walter Mitty was introduced to the world in 1939 by writer James Thurber. In Thurber’s short story, Mitty is a[…]
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