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How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

How Backpacking Taught Me to Embrace the Unexpected

November 17, 2020
by Caitlin Brown
Thailand Yarns, Yarns

It was the night before the Thai new year festival of Songkran, and we were spending it in the luggage hold of a bus. We…

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Backpacking at 30: Thoughts From an Inbetweener

Backpacking at 30: Thoughts From an Inbetweener

March 5, 2019
by Natasha Dziubajlo
Editorial, Yarns

I’m in the hostel common area and they’re all here. There’s the German solo traveller in sensible outdoor clothes; the bubbly Scandinavian girls who embarrass…

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What I Learned in the Studio Audience of the Ellen DeGeneres Show

What I Learned in the Studio Audience of the Ellen DeGeneres Show

January 15, 2019
by Roger Ma
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It’s midday and I’m standing in a parking lot across the road from Warner Bros. Studio. Around me I can see families, couples, groups of…

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White Hippies and Cultural Appropriation

White Hippies and Cultural Appropriation

November 6, 2018
by Nirvana Bhandary
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I sit in a rustic wooden house adorned with ornaments from South Asia in the middle of the wilderness in Bulgaria. It is a chilly…

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An Unexpected Sex Show With My Spanish Teacher in Puerto Escondido

An Unexpected Sex Show With My Spanish Teacher in Puerto Escondido

November 5, 2018
by Mardi Wilson
Yarns

My Spanish teacher in Puerto Escondido dressed like the Fonz and liked to flaunt the collection of selfies on his blackberry. The photos were always edited in really outdated camera…

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A Gay Atheist Goes To Church

A Gay Atheist Goes To Church

October 31, 2018
by Lachie Parry
Yarns

Photo by Karl Fredrickson. I’m an atheist. It’s never normally hard for me to admit that. But last time I settled myself in a city overseas,…

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Cotton Swabs and Second-Hand Panties in Japan

Cotton Swabs and Second-Hand Panties in Japan

October 29, 2018
by Luke McConaghey
Features, Japan Yarns, Yarns

Cover by Takahiro Taguchi Dotombori, 10 pm. The street was neon-drenched and the soundtrack was synthetic saccharine J-pop. I stepped into a bar. “Irashaimase!”, shouted…

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Being a Brown Backpacker in a Sea of White

Being a Brown Backpacker in a Sea of White

October 10, 2018
by Nirvana Bhandary
Features

I walk into a hostel in Italy and the common room is filled with people for the free dinner. I scan the room quickly. There…

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"What Goes Around Comes Around": On Accepting Kindness From Strangers

“What Goes Around Comes Around”: On Accepting Kindness From Strangers

September 21, 2018
by Eli Sooker
Yarns

Right now, I should be in absolute shock and wonderment. I’m sitting comfortably in the rental home of three elderly Japanese people, who have just…

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The Traveller's Sacrifice

The Traveller’s Sacrifice

August 14, 2018
by Lee McDermid
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I just missed another friend’s wedding. A friend I have known since the age of 10. She sent me the invite months ago. Absolutely no…

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When a Rookie Rents a Scooter

When a Rookie Rents a Scooter

November 21, 2017
by Kristen Pharaoh
Thailand Yarns, Yarns

A couple of years ago now, Julia Gillard’s “$1000 textbook allowance” and continuous Centrelink payments bought me my flight to Bangkok and funded my Asian…

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Clubbing in Yangon with the Party Guy of Myanmar

Clubbing in Yangon with the Party Guy of Myanmar

October 23, 2017
by Frances Vinall
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A night out in Yangon will probably start on a rooftop somewhere, watching the sun set over the glittering Shwedagon Pagoda. This will likely be…

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