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Brothers
Don't Travel: Short Stories of Israel is a short poetic
re-hashings of a travelers experience through the middle-east's
most famous country.
Here we have an oddity, a book about Israel not dealing with the overly sensationalized. Interesting, surprising, and often times funny, "Brothers Don't Travel," paints Israel as a quirky country still on the verge of realizing its place in the world. The first half of the book follows the day-to-day life of a tourist in Israel. Through stories of cultural misunderstanding, happenstance and sheer youthful exuberance, you get a sense of modern Israel.
Author, Kenneth Ngwa, lands in a foreign country to meet a distant relative and finds himself entangled with the locals: African refugees, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, and Hash smoking tourists! After squandering his money...
Ride at your own risk in Mexico City.
I hopped into a cab and should have realized that something was off when the driver gave me an old seat belt to hold on to and said “cuidate” which means take care in Spanish. With that he sped off, and I don’t think he put on the brakes until we got to my destination. We swerved through cars, over curbs and flew through red lights. At one point we may have even been going the wrong way on a one-way street, but my eyes were closed at that point.
James and Sarah Welle got married, quit their jobs at Microsoft, sold all of their material possessions, and decided to travel around the world on their bicycles. In November of 2006 the couple left their comfortable corporate jobs and set out looking for adventure on the open road. Early this year, they returned to the United States, after traveling through 20 countries and cycling over 10,000 kilometers. Here are their reflections and some tips for others who plan on embarking on their bike journeys.
Trent Collins has surfed in Finland, Estonia, Brazil and England — Africa, Greece and Spain, too. And he does it all without a board. Collins is a Couch Surfer.
“I first heard about CS (Couch Surfing) while stuck in a hotel in Finland 150 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle,” wrote Collins, a couchsurfing.com volunteer, in an e-mail. “It seemed like the perfect escape from being stuck with nothing but an empty bar or a tiny TV in the corner of the room. I'd get to see what was going on in the place I was. So I signed up as soon as I got back to civilization, and after I got to know it, I started to get more involved in the running of things and helping out around the site.”