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Jeffrey Tayler describes a death-defying bus adventure across Nigeria.

I entered Syria to find the family of the Arab sheikh who'd saved my grandfather's life. First, get by the guards

A tour bus carrying dozens of men, women and children from Tijuana, Mexico, crashed in the mountains of California

A type-A journalist is forced to unwind at an idyllic, isolated (accessible only by narrow-gauge railroad or helicopter) Colorado resort.

How to kayak with the biggest fish, hunker down on the California coast and make it up the Northeast Corridor in one piece.

Mark Schatzker describes an unexpected -- and ultimately, bittersweet -- idyll in the wilds of Patagonia.

Dwight Garner reviews Lolis Eric Elie's book "Smokestack Lightning: Adventures in the Heart of Barbecue Country".

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The Georgia gathering was the first place I got stoned. But what really blew my mind was Jimi Hendrix

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