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The Train Was Cancelled — So We Walked from Sweden into Finland

What happens when nine people who can’t speak a single common language are stuck in the wilds of Sweden?

5d ago

The Train Was Cancelled — So We Walked from Sweden into Finland

5d ago

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Why Baseball’s Origin Story is Completely Wrong

Yet it, and the ball at its heart, has a history and life so rich and original that it’s almost as if it’s alive.

May 6

Why Baseball’s Origin Story is Completely Wrong

May 6

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Took the Train from Marrakesh to Rabat, Morocco. Found Six Remarkable People

“A strong woman can carry a lot of water.” — South African Proverb

Apr 14

Took the Train from Marrakesh to Rabat, Morocco. Found Six Remarkable People

Apr 14

Never By Jet — The First of a Series as My Wife and I Travel All 7 Continents the Old Fashioned Way

Dispatch # 1 — Have you lost your mind?

Feb 19

Never By Jet — The First of a Series as My Wife and I Travel All 7 Continents the Old Fashioned Way

Feb 19

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I Entered a Hammam in Morocco. Exploring One of Islam’s Most Ancient and Holy Rituals

I followed Rayna through a narrow archway and down two steep levels of stone steps into the bowels of the Riad Kalaa in Rabat

Feb 4

I Entered a Hammam in Morocco. Exploring One of Islam’s Most Ancient and Holy Rituals

Feb 4

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Is the Human Race Making Itself Unnecessary?

AI could mean the first aliens we meet won’t be from another planet. They’ll be the ones we create.

Aug 31, 2024

Is the Human Race Making Itself Unnecessary?

Aug 31, 2024

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Riding Into Deadwood, SD — Gunfighters and Calamity (Jane)

Travelling through a mirror in time

Aug 27, 2024

Riding Into Deadwood, SD — Gunfighters and Calamity (Jane)

Aug 27, 2024

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Riding Horseback Through Monument Valley

A Navajo Shaman Guides Us Through One of America’s Great Treasures

Jun 6, 2024

Riding Horseback Through Monument Valley

Jun 6, 2024

Traveling With Bard and ChatGPT — Vagabond Adventure

Interviewing ChatGPT and Google Bard about travel and the Vagabond Adventure, then testing them by creating competing itineraries in Norway

Aug 17, 2023

Traveling With Bard and ChatGPT — Vagabond Adventure

Aug 17, 2023

Dispatch IX — A Vagabond Adventure — Vikings! — Vagabond Adventure

Careful what you learn in the history books. Here’s the story behind the true first encounters between Europeans and Native North…

Mar 14, 2023

Cartoon map of Newfoundland with hand drawn orange lines to locations the Viking Trail, Buena Vista, Port aux Basque, and L’Anse aux Meadows.

Mar 14, 2023

Chip Walter

Chip Walter

Chip Walter is a National Geographic Explorer, former CNN bureau chief, screenwriter & author of Immortality, Inc. His latest novel is entitled Doppelganger.

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