October, it turns out, means something different on the coast of Italy.

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Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, if you can wake up for it.

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Sometimes, just getting on the plane is adventure enough.

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The stories we tell of our travels, and how we tell them, matter.

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A week of hiking in Patagonia marked the change of many different seasons.

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Though I had been on trains in Europe before, nothing is quite like the Italian rail network.

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Scooters can get you anywhere in Thailand, including into trouble.

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What do you do when there is panicked news about hurricanes and kidnappings? Book cheap tickets! At least, that was the answer to a cheap but slightly strange week in Mexico back in 2012.

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What do you do with six hours stuck in a foreign city? Wander around aimlessly! There is nothing to fight off jet lag like the subtle fear you won't find your way back to the airport in time for your flight.

Helping to stop global poverty is necessary, but what it looks like on the ground, or in the air, can be different than you expect.

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