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A Native American football team beat the 1927 NFL Giants: The story of John Levi
“Running back John Levi is about as easy to stop as a 200-pound eel. With his speed, and his shifting, sidestepping style of running,...
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Why you go someplace is less important than just going (with Tony Perrottet)
“For ancient Roman tourists, the whole point of travel was to go where everyone else was going. Sightseeing was a form of pilgrimage.” –Tony...
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Integrating love of travel & love of home (with philosopher Chloe Cooper Jones)
“A willingness to fail is an important part of difficult beauty. Because difficult beauty will arrive first not as beauty at all.” –Chloe Cooper...
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Travel contracts your possessions and expands your life (with Eric Weiner)
“Travel is one of the few activities we engage in not knowing the outcome and reveling in that uncertainty. Nothing is more forgettable than...
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Travelers create their own distinct global culture (with anthropologist Pegi Vail)
“Travel expands time, because you’re not experiencing the everyday of what you normally do. It’s all about discovery, and experiencing that with other people.”...
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The travel industry is here to help you; feel free to ignore it (with Seth Kugel)
“Why fly fourteen hours from New York to Johannesburg to see a South African version of Brooklyn? To me, the only reason to know...