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Road Trip To Fujairah from Dubai
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Seeking the Extraordinary: Kenya as Home The skies were overcast, the wind was slowly picking up speed and the rising dust was making it harder to see. I had just gotten back on my bicycle after two
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Viking Couchsurfer - Story of the man who's hosted over 500 people in his house
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Around The World On A Vespa - Markus André Mayer
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Learning to live in the wildernerness with Miriam Lancewood
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Travel With a Twist - Story of The Game Show Where Next
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"Why I left" - The story of a Midwest American who explored the unsafe world
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How Shosho Chang is Bridging the Cultural Gap by Cycling the World
There's a point in life when you tend to give up. You believe that you need a cause or a motivating force in life, or dream of doing somethi
Cycling from Europe to Asia for differently-abled children - Nón lá Project
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Tom Fremantle, the man walking around the world for a cause
Meet Tom Fremantle, an author and adventurer from England, who, now in his early 50s, decided he wanted to walk around the world. ''I know
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Meet the writers
Trift stories come from people who actually went. Here are a few of them.
Ryan Shirley
Photographer and long-form writer. Based out of wherever the last flight landed.
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Nidhi Ranjalkar
Travel writer and storyteller covering Africa, the Middle East, and everywhere in between.
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Steve Yalo
Road-trip specialist. Prefers gravel. Has an unhealthy attachment to his 1998 truck.
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Paridhi Joshi
Writes about food, people, and the spaces where the two meet. Former restaurant critic.
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