Author Archives: Christian DeBenedetti
Trail of Tears [The Howl of Nature]
Posted by in Mountain Madness, Survival, The Howl of Nature
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You know when you’re just riding along on your bike, thinking about dinner and that time you once bunny hopped a really big branch, and then a 450-lb red hartebeest just totally takes you out at about 50mph? No? It’s … Continue reading
9 Days in Iraq [Happy Hellidays]
Posted by in Books + Media, Hotel Hell, Human Sacrifice, Nothing to Declare, Off The Map, Road Warriors, The Unfriendly Skies
Tagged Paula Froelich
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Writer Paula Froelich describes her recent 9-day vacation in Iraq including “159 checkpoints in one day,” wearing a synthetic fiber burka, hitting known-terrorist hangouts, and basically kicking it in “The Red Zone” for her upcoming story in Playboy, which you now … Continue reading
ONLY Weeks Left to Enter ‘World’s Unluckiest Traveler 2: The Rescue’ Contest
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From High Seas Heroics to Airport Assistance and more, Travel Guard® North America Wants Your Random Acts of Kindness Stevens Point, Wisc. – (August 4, 2011) With only weeks left to enter the World’s Unluckiest Traveler 2: The Rescue contest, Travel … Continue reading
Here, a yarn by Wayward Betty writer Kate Clark, via Hairpin and Gawker.com, which picked it up. The moral? Go big, then go home. One of the reasons plastic surgery is cheaper in Thailand is that the entire process is … Continue reading
Trial by Volcano [Lonely Island] |
What does it feel like, that first night abroad and alone? Here, in a taut, vivid meditation on the nature of recomposing the self in a new, thrillingly different—and more than a little dangerous—environment, frequent contributor Kate Erickson explains the … Continue reading
Texas Twister [The Unfriendly Skies]
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Tagged Diane Redcay, Texas, TravelGuard, World's Unluckiest Traveler Contest
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We married on Valentine’s day left the next day for Texas. Our first fight out was delayed for de-icing we made it to our second stop but the plane we were to get on had a problem with the door: … Continue reading
Seeing Stars [Drive Like Hell] |
It happened in Granados, Mexico, in the summer of 1997. I was 13 and visiting relatives on a family vacation. After a feast with family, laughing together, we got into the back of red pick-up truck. Seat belts in a … Continue reading
Floating to Paradise on the S.S. Montezuma [Howl of Nature] |
After a semester abroad in Costa Rica, I traveled with a friend through Central America. We missed the last ferry from Guatemala to Belize, so we hitched a ride on a large canoe that was filled with at least fourteen … Continue reading
Damn the Mosquitoes [When Animals Attack]
Posted by in Run or Die, The Howl of Nature, Uncategorized, When Animals Attack
Tagged India, Tim Brookes
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In order to reach India in time to watch the monsoon make landfall, I had to leave so abruptly I didn’t have time for all my shots. The only thing I needed to worry about, my doctor said, were mosquitoes. … Continue reading
One Last Chip and Salsa for Papa [Insult, Meet Injury] |
Our family traveled for an unlucky reason: a reunion to commemorate the premature death of my father. Right after the funeral, the relatives still needed to be together, so we agreed to meet in Mexico to hug, cry, and wind down. We were … Continue reading