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Book: The Best American Travel Writing 2016
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  1. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    explanations, like dreams, only make sense while they're happening.
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  2. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    Travel is like love, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end." All love affairs, all long-term relationships-travel included-demand that we keep an element of mystery alive and kicking.
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  3. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    Can we "belong anywhere?" Should we try?
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  4. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    Estrada calls the desire to visit an unchanged Cuba patronizing, as if the island is a museum, not a nation entitled to a future.
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  5. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    Part of the power of travel is that you stand a good chance of being hollowed out by it.
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  6. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    Part of the power of travel is that you stand a good chance of being hollowed out by it. The lucky come back home complaining about crooked rug merchants and dishonest taxi drivers; the unlucky never come home at all.
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  7. Bill Bryson _ The Best American Travel

    From Ukraine, it wasn't uncommon for hang gliders to take off near the border and float their way into Hungary or Romania. Once they hovered in the general vicinity of the drop spot, they'd release their cargo-hundreds, even thousands of cartons of cigarettes-make a hasty turn, and head back.
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