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Inside 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 moreA Goodbye to the Faces of Cambodia
An ancient history of greatness; a recent history of tragedy; and the present that is a breadth of culture, charm,[…]
Read moreBattambang, Cambodia: A Crocodile Farm and Wedding Crashing
Our boat approached the landing in Battambang. We twelve travelers jumped off the boat onto the bank a couple of[…]
Read moreThe Floating Villages of Cambodia
After getting admittedly “templed-out” (my guide book warned me about that), I was ready to trade in the ancient and[…]
Read moreIntroducing Cambodia
Since I’m not currently traveling, I’m devoting the next several Sunday blogs to past treks. Today, I start a series[…]
Read moreVisiting our Sister School in the Hills of Thailand
On the morning of May 7, we awoke in our half-star hotel in Thoeng to fulfill the core purpose for[…]
Read moreTen Years Ago I Took My Last Drink
“Double Jack and Coke,” I said to the tender of the dive bar near campus the night of May[…]
Read moreThe Legendary Long-Neck Women of Burma…who had long faces
You’ve likely heard of them. Tribal people whose women have extraordinarily long necks wrapped and stretched in gold-colored rings. This[…]
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