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The ship comes every few weeks and the whole island knows the day. Everything changes when it arrives: the shop, the menu, the mood.
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Kiribati · Oceania & the Pacific
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Nothing is open and everything is quiet, until the churches start. We sat outside on the grass and listened to four-part harmony coming through open windows for an hour.
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Samoa · Oceania & the Pacific
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The skipper said the reef changes every year now. He had been diving the same site for twenty-three years and pointed out exactly where the colour had gone.
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Great Barrier Reef, Australia · Oceania & the Pacific
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We knelt on the sand with torches pointed up. Plankton gathered in the light and the mantas came to eat, rolling over us, close enough to feel the water move.
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Kona, Hawaii · The Americas
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The road ended in black rock that had not been there two years before. A sign asked us not to take any lava home, which is apparently both disrespectful and unlucky.
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Big Island, Hawaii · The Americas
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It snowed in June. We pulled into a viewpoint, three other cars did the same, and six strangers stood in a line watching a glacier disappear behind cloud without saying anything.
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Alberta, Canada · The Americas
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We were told to make noise. After two hours of singing badly we stopped, and thirty seconds later a black bear crossed the trail ahead. We resumed singing immediately.
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British Columbia, Canada · The Americas
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We walked on the sea floor in the morning and kayaked over the same spot after lunch. Sixteen metres of water arrived while we ate.
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Bay of Fundy, Canada · The Americas
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Minus twenty outside and a queue out the door. The man in front of us explained that the cheese must squeak, and that anything else is not poutine but a tragedy.
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Montreal, Canada · The Americas
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The driver pulled over without warning and turned off the headlights. Green went across the whole sky in about four seconds and then rearranged itself for an hour.
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Yukon, Canada · The Americas
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The state ferry takes three days and you sleep in a tent taped to the deck. It costs less than a flight and you see four hundred kilometres of coastline nobody photographs.
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Alaska, USA · The Americas
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We drove to the North Rim by accident, found eleven cars in the car park instead of a thousand, and had a viewpoint to ourselves for forty minutes.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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Everyone warns you that going down is easy. On the way back up, in the last mile, a ranger handed out salt tablets and said the same sentence to every single person.
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Grand Canyon, USA · The Americas
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The waitress topped up the cup four times without being asked and called everyone honey. The pie was better than any restaurant we ate at that month.
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Nevada, USA · The Americas
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The sign said population 11. The bar was open, the man behind it was also the postmaster, and he knew exactly where we were headed before we said it.
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Nevada, USA · The Americas
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Half the towns on the old road are closed and half are museums about being closed. One motel owner has been repainting the same neon sign for thirty years.
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Arizona, USA · The Americas
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We hiked out under a full moon without torches because the granite reflected enough light. A ranger told us afterwards that this was either wonderful or irresponsible.
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California, USA · The Americas
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It came over the hill like water going down a drain in reverse. Ten minutes later the bridge was gone and it was ten degrees colder.
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San Francisco, USA · The Americas
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We got out at 125th instead of 116th and ended up eating the best food of the trip while waiting for the next train, which we deliberately missed twice.
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New York, USA · The Americas
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Four people, four instruments, no sheet music and no audience except us and a dog. It went on for two hours and nobody announced a single song title.
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Appalachia, USA · The Americas
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A brass band came down the street on a Sunday afternoon and the crowd behind it grew from twelve to two hundred in four blocks. We never found out what it was for.
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New Orleans, USA · The Americas
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The hotel put tape on the windows and everyone stocked up on ice. It missed us by ninety kilometres and the next morning the beach was covered in shells nobody had ever seen.
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Florida, USA · The Americas
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Two hours in a queue of stationary cars with men selling churros between the lanes. By the time we crossed, we had eaten dinner without leaving the vehicle.
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Mexico and USA · The Americas
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The cemeteries were full of families with candles, food and folding chairs, staying all night. A woman explained, kindly, that this was a reunion and not a haunting.
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Oaxaca, Mexico · The Americas
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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