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How do preconceptions of travel and culture shape your experience of a place?

One of my more poetic students remarked that I looked like an Amazon warrior.
I had come to resent Orlando, considering it a sort of cultural void.
The backpacker, beneath a gigantic fern, has an epiphany and returns changed.
We've 'done' a city. It sounds like we have depleted the place of its experiences.
Rebel against your routine no matter where you are -- just take one step out of it.
There they are in high-resolution glory, stacked in line by a hip photo curator on...
My stint with Colonel Sanders in China was an entirely new exposure, led by a love of...
What was I was trying to prove?
Being in a place didn’t mean that I would be able to give insight into what it’s...
My experience of being ripped off in Vegas was very “authentic.”
We are free to reinvent ourselves no matter where we are.
Travel becomes religion, and the congregation loves to spread the gospel.
You wonder why you felt the need to establish your traveling resume, yet again.
It's an April morning in Costa Rica, and you are haggling market vendors over the price...
We get a fair number of travel writers down here in Chile.
Maybe I am just an Antarctica scrooge.
There is a weariness that comes with taking photos.
How not to write about Africa. Then writing about it like that.
Not even a minute after the request, I handed him the money.
The destination that everyone seems to pick last.
A discussion of writing African stories turns to the fundamentals of self vs place