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       Kent E. St. John
          1955-2012

Kent St. JohnKent was our Senior Travel Editor and he embodied the spirit of travel that GoNOMAD is all about. We will miss him and he will be fondly remembered in the
hundreds of stories he wrote for us.

Good bye old friend


Crossing the Pamris Wakham corridor in Afghanistan.

Hiking in Afghanistan

A woman in rural Vietnam.Vietnam: A woman-only trip to a Bucket List Country
Vietnam is where so many people want to go. We interview three women who went on a month-long women-only tour there.

Climbing Iraq's highest Mountain with Secret Compass.Hiking in Afghanistan, Camping in Iraq. Secret Compass takes intrepid travelers to the wildest places on earth. How about Kurdistan, the Switzerland of the Middle East?
                                         
Paris to Pyrenees by David Downie.

Paris to the Pyrenees: A skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of St James David Downie and his wife make a 1100 mile walk through rural France following an ancient route.

 Learning English in Malta at Maltalingua English Language School. Learning English in Malta
Of all the programs you can study, proficiency in speaking and writing in English is right at the top of career-benefitting education. It's even better when you do it on a subtropical island--Malta--in the Mediterranean sea.
Old Baldy, the oldest lighthouse in North Carolina Bald Head Island: A Hopeful Vision of the Future
Stephen Hartshorne visits Bald Head Island, North Carolina, where residents watch over the nests of loggerhead turtles and gather to howl at the moon.		 Photography Tips: Shooting Marvelous Morocco.

Photography Tips: Shooting Magical Morocco
Kathryn Weir provides tips on how to capture the best images in a very special place...Morocco. It's worth a few cents for a portrait like this, don't you think?
An artist on Insadong Street in Seoul, South Korea. Paul Shoul photo.

 

Traveling Korea: Seoul and Busan
Paul Shoul visits sites in Seoul like Changdeokgung Palace, Cheonggye Square, Insadong (Antique Street), Nanta Cooking School and Jagalchi Fish Market, Busan

 Famagusta in North Cyprus: safe, prosperous and inexpensive!

 

North Cyprus: Waiting to be Discovered

Unlike its neighbor to the south, there is no banking crisis or even Euros in North Cyprus. Instead, you'll find country lanes, empty beaches and a prosperous land waiting to be discovered.

 
Climbing Mt Kilimanjaro. Climbing Kilimanjaro: My Mountain and Me, a Tale of Love and Hate

Jessie Waack chronicles a bucket-list adventure that left her sore, cold and miserable...and gave her moments of brilliance she'll never forget. 		Enjoying a family breakfast at Old Town Cafe, in Bellingham, Washington. photo by Max Hartshorne.

Bellingham Washington: Chasing Spirits on Puget Sound
Max Hartshorne meets a ghost hunter in Fairhaven, hikes pretty woodlands, snowshoes and sips local brews and moonshine in this resurgent Northwest city.
Jaanus Hiis, King of the Seto Estonia: A Baltic Beauty Full of Surprises
Janis Turk visits Estonia and finds a country of surpassing beauty with a storied history and a high-tech economy, where internet access is considered a basic human right.
 A tiger in India India Lifts the Ban on Tiger Tourism
Shelley Seale writes of progress in a land where tigers still roam free. Once banned, now tourists can again gain access to see the big cats.
 

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