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I learned I had failed the bar exam in October. I had months until my next chance to retake it. Tired of living in Memphis after over a decade, I relinquished my house, scattered my possessions across a dozen...

When I was at Varsity in Cape Town, my parents came to visit and we decided to travel up the West Coast of South Africa. There are basically two roads to choose from when travelling in this part of the world, the main...

It had all started so well. Uyuni, several thousand metres up in the Bolivian Altiplano, was a traveller’s hub with a frontier feel. Backpackers had either just arrived across the Salar de Uyuni salt lake from the lunar-like...

From my position I could get a clear view of the rib cage and the insides of the stomach, the sight of which churned up my own insides. I tried to move away but the rudimentary wooden floor beneath my feet began to creak...

It is also the word used for the grieving ceremony which follows a death in East Africa.

There was no dusk those first few days at the Torres del Paine; evening just came down. It seemed to rush in randomly minutes after we’d arrived at the campsites and Alejandra muttered Argentinian curses against it...

Hundreds of guests were seated inside the Golden Royal Hall. From where I stood though, it looked like the entire city of Nanjing was present. I felt dizzy, then fainted in my itchy cheongsam and torturously heavy headpiece.

Andrew, an office colleague, convinced me to accompany him and some explorers on a relaxed rafting trip down a stretch of the Pongola River, on the border of the Ithala Game Reserve in Kwazulu-Natal.

My childish enthusiastic shouts of “giddyap,” always gained the same response. An exasperated blast of sour nicotine tinged breath followed with the sullen instruction to, “pipe down, kid.”

The back streets of Rome were lumpy and bumpy. The cobbled roads erratic as a choppy sea. My husband swore loudly as one of the nasty cobbles twisted the wheel off our obese suitcase.