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May 29 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
To celebrate this week’s Travel Issue, we’re bringing you a selection of pieces about fascinating journeys.
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In 2021, on the cusp of turning 80, the author Paul Theroux wrote about a life of constant searching.
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Revisit a report from Jennie Erin Smith on the remarkable history of tourism in the Darién Gap, a zone of rivers, mountains, and jungles in Panama and Colombia that is known for its seeming impassability.
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In 2014, Patricia Marx recounted an intrepid transatlantic voyage aboard a freighter.
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“The train moved on so slowly that butterflies blew in and out the windows.” In 1950, Truman Capote wrote about a train trip through Spain. #NewYorkerArchive
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