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DAVID LINTON (Ph.D., New York University) is Professor Emeritus at Marymount Manhattan College. He has published research on topics as diverse as the Luddite movement, the reading behavior of the Virgin Mary, Shakespeare as a media theorist, and media education. He serves on the Board of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research as well as having formerly been president of the New York State Conference of the American Association of University Professors. In addition, he is a cast member and the resident poet of the podcast Fireside Mystery Theatre.

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Our interviews focus on the travel, entertainment and lifestyle industry, with people who are making valuable contributions in their particular fields.

Delving into the art of travel writing with nathan james thomas, founder and chief editor of intrepid times.

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Untethered by Nathan James Thomas Out September 2023

He is the co-editor alongside Jennifer Roberts of the travel writing anthology Fearless Footsteps (2020), and the author of Travel Your Way (2022) and Untethered (Coming September 2023).

In this interview, Nathan talks about his journey in establishing Intrepid Times, what narrative travel writing means to him, how to make writing stand out by exploring diverse perspectives instead of focusing solely on oneself, and his views on the future of travel writing in the face of emerging AI technology.

 Q. Can you tell us about your interest in travel writing and how it led to the founding of Intrepid Times?

I write and tell stories for a living and have been doing a version of this my whole adult life.

Travel must have been encoded in the genes for me — perhaps my earliest childhood memory is standing up to my full four-ish year-old height in the back of a taxi in Singapore and staring in wonder at the overwhelming street life outside.

We were stopping over on the way from New Zealand to see family in England, and suddenly the world became a thousand times the size it had seemed to me before.

Ever since then, travel has become my obsession.

It was my grandfather who introduced me to travel books by renowned writers like Paul Theroux, Colin Thubron, and Patrick Leigh Fermor. Reading and writing about travel quickly became a source of immense fascination for me.

Over time, I realized that there was a gap in the market for a platform that offered accessible, literary and relatable travel stories. Intrepid Times was brought into being by this very realization.

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Nathan in Kyoto

Q. What makes a great travel story?

  A great travel story is one you are powerless to resist. It pulls you along like a bullet train accelerating out of the station.

You can’t help it … you are forced to read every line.

As you read, you are not just scanning text on a page, but instead, you are taken to the very heart of the place conjured through the author’s vivid description.

You feel like you are right there with them, experiencing their sense of wonder as they encounter new people, places, and things that must be seen to be believed.

The words leap off the page that it makes you make you feel like you are there.

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Talking to Locals in Porto, Portugal

Q. Who are the travel writers that have influenced your writing style the most?

I mentioned Theroux, Thubron and Fermor above.

I am also a huge fan of Paul Rimple who writes mostly about Georgia — his writing is the perfect encapsulation of what I described above.

You glance at the first line, 10 minutes later, you are already mentally planning a trip to wherever he described.

I spent my late teenage years trying to write like Hemingway.  In my early 20s, I aspired to write like Kerouac, and in the past decade, I have strived to establish my own unique voice.

Q, Intrepid Times explores new locations, human interaction, and traveler reflections instead of travel guides. What do you hope those stories will inspire readers to engage with travel differently?

Exactly—So much travel writing is either “Wow the world is so bizarre, man” or “Look, it’s me trying to find myself to see how brave and amazing I am.”

At Intrepid Times, we try to look beyond blinders and chase different perspectives on the world as it really is.

I like to think of travel as a sacred act – An act of letting go of yourself, of unburdening yourself of every assumption and expectation, and just being in the strange and wonderful moment.

While I hardly achieve this myself, when someone accomplishes it and writes truthfully, it’s magical.

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Nathan in Uruguay

Q. Intrepid Times writer Maria Betteghelle once said, ‘Everybody is a tourist, but not everyone is a traveler.’ What do you think about this quote?

Cool quote! Yeah, imagine this: You are in a popular tourist spot, let’s say Bangkok. On the main street there are hundreds of Brits and Americans and Australians and Germans being jostled by local touts trying to sell this and that.

This is as fake as travel gets. But it is also real—it’s an example of something real, too. And then what do you do? Do you go with the touts and see their crazy show? Probably. But the next night you come back, you do what none of those Aussies and Brits are doing: You walk a street over. Then another street. And things get quieter, and suddenly you seem to be the only foreigner around.

And you find a small outside bar, order a huge beer, and start chatting with the owner. I guess this comes back to Maria’s quote, it isn’t about NOT being a tourist, but rather not ONLY being a tourist.

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Nathan in Kazbegi, Georgia

Q. One of the articles on Intrepid Times suggested that writers should minimize their use of personal pronouns like “I” and “me”. Why do you think this is important and how it affects the art of storytelling?

We publish first person narrative travel stories, so these pronouns have their place. And sometimes they are necessary.

But it can become problematic when used excessively and carelessly. It’s not just sloppy writing—it’s more than that. It’s a problem of perspective. If you’re seeing “I” used in every sentence, what does this tell you about what’s important to the writer?

Using “I” can be powerful when it’s done deliberately, but I urge aspiring travel writers to consider their intentions when doing so.

Does it really serve the story to bring the focus back to the author at this moment?

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Nathan in Tokyo

Q. How do you make your travel writing more imaginative and creative, and can you provide examples of how you apply it in your writing?

The most basic approach here is to run through the five senses. It’s deceptively simple. Afterall, how often do we pause in our real life to consciously run through what we hear, see, taste, smell and feel (tactile) at any given moment?

This also can help writers avoid the “I” trap described above. Take a travel memory. Run through it across the five senses and describe each one without using I — this will help you get out the gate!

Here’s a great example of that used by Fiona Davies in an Intrepid Times story from a few years back— notice how “I” is used just once to establish the perspective, before it seamlessly shifts to powerful sensory descriptions of what is being observed.

“In the ancient Sri Meenakshi Amman Temple in Madurai, I watch a lone worshiper conduct a

ceremony known as puja amid a thickly swirling cloud of perfumed incense. He wears only white

dhoti trousers, and his brow is streaked with turmeric paste and sweat. Eyes closed in quivering

ecstasy, he clasps his hands across his heavily contracting chest in a gesture of prayer. Next,

he lowers himself on bent knees, stopping just short of collapsing to the ground. In one fluid

movement, he raises himself up, lifting his hands to the heavens and bowing his head to the

earth. In a silent, graceful trance, he repeats these motions, again and again, as the sounds of

the temple musicians swirl around him towards a shrill and feverish crescendo.”

Street Dancing with Shiva – Fiona Davies

Read the full article here .

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Nathan drinking the local brew in Petra Jordan

Q. How do you see the future of travel writing changing with the rise of AI, and what new opportunities or challenges will this bring?

I’d like to draw a distinction here between travel writing in the form of writing guides (à la Lonely Planet), and narrative, creative travel writing that we publish on Intrepid Times.

Guide writing has been dramatically rocked by changing tech at every turn, and AI seems to be the latest disruption here. It’s not hard to imagine a world where an internet-connected generative language model can churn out convincing hotel recommendations and trip itineraries.

It’s probably already being used to assemble guide style content. Where the magic comes from is the personal experience of the traveler. This is what we try to capture in the stories we publish. And this is irreducibly human.

Nick Cave wrote, “Chat GPT has no inner being, it has been nowhere, it has endured nothing.”

This tool will have implications for all industries, not least of all travel and travel writing. But the art of narrative nonfiction travel writing will endure.

And maybe in an ocean of auto generated content, real human storytelling will stand out more than ever.

Q. What advice would you give to aspiring travel writers who are looking to break into the industry and establish themselves as unique voices in a crowded field?

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Nathan in Tirana, Albania

Be wild, be reliable. Many can do one, surprisingly few can do both. I know many writers who are reliable and competent, who can churn out 1,500 interesting words on any subject on deadline.

I also know many writers who will delight and surprise you, who will find a way of looking at something no one else has. They turn up in our submission’s inbox with a scintillating piece of prose, promise further stories, then disappear for months on end, missing deadlines and neglecting commitments.

How can you be both? Wild and surprising on the page, predictable and dependable in the inbox?

It’s a contradiction because the conditions that lead to one state of mind are antithetical to another, and in the age of the internet, people are expected to be on all the time.

If you could figure this one out on your own terms, the travel space is yours for the taking.

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The Best Travel Literature of All Time

Like many travellers, you may have found yourself immersed in the voyages of those who have gone before you from time to time. While living vicariously is no replacement for being on the road, there are some utterly wonderful nonfiction travel books out there, which are the next best thing.

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A Time of Gifts by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

It’s quite genuinely impossible to create a comprehensive list of the best travel literature. While there’s a lot of replication of these types of lists out there, some books endure precisely because of their importance at the time or to other writers. Although some authors listed below deserve to have more than one of their books featured on this compendium of the greatest travel literature, only their finest work has been included. Consider it your gateway to that writer’s greater oeuvre, if you’ve not read any of their work previously; a reminder if you have. Similarly, non-male writers have often been unfortunately overlooked in the past and some real gems that deserve to be on the best travel literature of all-time lists have been overlooked.

The following aims to redress the balance a little. Consideration is also given to some of the works that defined people who are now better-known for their other exploits, because there’s no greater adventure than that of somebody whose travels inspired them to do something more important or lasting in the world beyond merely moving through space and time for travel’s sake. Here are twenty of the best pieces of travel literature ever written (theoretically), to guide you to your next read, to find inspiration for your next trip, or to simply use as a general reading checklist until your next journey.

A Time of Gifts (1977) – Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor

Writing about Paddy Leigh Fermor in 2020, it would be easy to dismiss the great writer as a privileged individual who was fortunate to stay with royalty and the well-to-do all across Europe as he sauntered from one place to the next. But that would be an awful disservice. A Time of Gifts is the first of a trilogy of books documenting his journey, on foot, from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople (Istanbul). His scholarship and complete immersion in every culture he encountered helped his writing transcend mere travel literature to reach a higher level of writing. You never feel as though he’s an outside observer trying to make sense of the foreign by superimposing his own beliefs. His prose has been described as baroque, and is densely layered with a deep intelligence, understanding and, above all, passion for everything he encounters. The trip itself was undertaken in 1933/4 and the Europe that Fermor uncovers on his peregrinations is one which is beginning to spiral blindly into major conflict. Somehow this aspect makes the random acts of kindness he experiences across Germany and the rest of the continent even more bittersweet.

Publisher: John Murray, Buy at Amazon.com

Arabian Sands (1959) – Sir Wilfred Thesiger

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Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger (Photo: courtesy of P.S. Burton via Wikimedia Commons)

Another travel literature classic is Thesiger’s intrepid anthropological look at Bedouin culture and lifestyle in one of the remotest, most inhospitable places on earth: the Arabian Peninsula’s Rub’ al Khali. The setting for the journey is amid the embers of World War II, the repercussions of which were being felt worldwide, including among the Bedouin tribes who’d lived much in the same way they always had until the outside world intruded. In effect, this book offers a snapshot of a remarkable culture that was fast altering, which is what makes this, and many of the books written during the reign of the British Empire, fascinating historical documents. For all of the rightful condemnation of European colonialism, one thing is clear in this book: the fascination and inquisitive nature of the many British scholarly individuals sent to far-reaching corners of the globe created an immensely valuable cache of first-person accounts of cultures and peoples that may not have been recorded otherwise amid the inevitable and inescapable rise of globalisation of the time.

Publisher: Penguin Classics, Buy at Amazon.com

Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1942) – Rebecca West

West’s voluminous, in-depth examination of Yugoslavia during her time travelling there in 1937 was designed to explore how the country was a reflection of its past. West spent six weeks journeying across the whole region with her husband and meeting eminent citizens along the way. Sadly, by the time the book was published, the Nazis had invaded and the country would never be the same again, which makes this yet another invaluable early-20 th -century document. What sets Black Lamb and Grey Falcon apart though is the level of exquisite detail and research dedicated to the subject. If there was any proof required that travel literature serves an invaluable purpose as a piece of primary historical evidence, then this may well be it.

Publisher: Canongate Books, Buy at Amazon.com

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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon by Rebecca West (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

Border (2017) – Kapka Kassabova

Beautifully written and layered with a real sense of atmosphere, Kassabova’s haunting Border is one of the standout pieces of travel writing to be published in the last decade. Eastern Europe is one of the least explored regions of the world in travel literature. Owing perhaps in part to the secrecy and legacy of distrust brought about by the Cold War, even those who have travelled through as part of longer journeys (Paul Theroux in Pillars of Hercules or Bill Bryson in Neither Here Nor There ) scarcely shed any real light on the region. Here, Kassabova heads back to the nation of her birth (Bulgaria) to explore the fragments of political ideology, faith and race, and the blurred lines between them, that have developed around the border region separating Bulgaria from Greece and Turkey.

Publisher: Granta Books, Buy at Amazon.com

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Border by Kapka Kasabova (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) – George Orwell

While much of travel literature is concerned with the voyage and seeking out the miraculous, the unique and the lesser known, Orwell took another route entirely. Down and Out in Paris and London does exactly what it says on the tin. It is a memoir of impoverished living in two of the world’s great cities, at a time when they were global beacons in terms of both power and culture. Not only does this book, in a very prescient move, eschew the superior tone of academia when examining the other, it also avoids all glamour in those cities, focussing entirely on the poor, the meek and the desperate. In Paris he lives on the edge of eviction, working the kitchens of a fancy establishment, while in London he lives the life of a tramp, moving from one bunkhouse and soup kitchen to the next, living day to day. It is to travel writing what the ‘method’ is to acting.

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Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972) – Hunter S. Thompson

The outlier on this list (all good lists need one) is Hunter S. Thompson’s delightfully absurd, occasionally apocryphal and downright debauched novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . In it, he created a new way of writing known as gonzo journalism, a style of storytelling which is found most commonly today in some documentaries, where the lines of fact and fiction become blurred and with the journalist placed as a central character in the story. This brilliant commentary on the flexible and inconsistent nature of truth was perfectly epitomised by the increasingly hallucinogenic recollections of protagonist Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo. The road trip to Las Vegas ultimately casts important light on an American society gripped by racism and violence (partly why the story is still so powerful today is that America hasn’t yet learned to grow up). As such it remains one of the most intriguing snapshots of America out there, surpassing the work of many strait-laced travel narratives in the process.

Publisher: Random House Inc., Buy at Amazon.com

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson (Photo: Mathieu Croisetière via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0)

The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (1975) – Paul Theroux

A perfect example of how gonzo journalism began to seep into travel literature comes from what is arguably the most important modern travelogue: The Great Railway Bazaar . In it, Theroux travels from London all the way to Southeast Asia and Japan, via India, then back to Europe via Russia’s Trans-Siberian railway. While Theroux upholds elements of the old school travel narrative – like the scholarly, studious approach and the inquisitive air – his journey by train is as much about the growing backpacker, hippie, trail and the western counterculture that encouraged it. Occasionally the line between fact and fiction is blurred in his writing, but only to better convey his interactions with the people he met. As such, you get a fascinating look at what could be called modern colonialism, whereby the train networks that were often built by colonial rulers in non-European nations across the world, like India and Burma, were now being used by a new generation in the post-colonial era to explore these newly-sovereign nations.

In Patagonia (1977) – Bruce Chatwin

Coming hot on the tail of Theroux’s above book is perhaps the most popular and enduring travel book of all time: In Patagonia . Bruce Chatwin starts it off with a direct nod to writing and journalism’s slide into apocrypha by framing his trip loosely around the search for remains of a “brontosaurus” found in a Patagonian cave, which he first found languishing in his grandparent’s house. The doubtful story behind this find sets him on a road where he aim to unravel various other mysteries whose only connection is geographical, including the final resting place of Butch Cassady and the Sundance Kid, in the wild, empty spaces of South America. It’s a brilliant book formed of loose sections that don’t directly link to one another but has greatly influenced modern travel literature today.

Publisher: Vintage Classics, Buy at Amazon.com

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In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

In Xanadu (1989) – William Dalrymple

One of the travel writers greatly influenced by Chatwin was William Dalrymple, whose own quest for his first book, In Xanadu , was framed as a search for the fabled palace of Kublai Khan, Xanadu. This type of narrative has always proven to be a ready source of inspiration for some of the better modern travel books; searching for answers to popular mysteries. It has a journalistic bent to it, and manages to sidestep the awkwardness of westerners merely travelling abroad and casting aspersions about the people and cultures they encounter through an imperial gaze, as is the criticism often lodged again some of the earlier works of travel writing. Here, Dalrymple follows in the footsteps of Marco Polo (following footsteps of somebody famous is also a common trope of travel literature) to find the palace. While Dalrymple restores elements of the scholarly, learned approach common to writers like Robert Byron and Paddy Leigh Fermor, you can feel the impact of those 70s writers as well.

Publisher: Flamingo, Buy at Amazon.com

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In Xanadu by William Dalrymple (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

Into the Wild (1996) – Jon Krakauer

Few gripping travel narratives manage to capture the why? of our impulse to roam quite like Jon Krakauer does in Into the Wild . The book is both harrowing and revelatory, while performing a third-person character study on a young man he never actually met. In 1992 Chris McCandless walked into the Alaskan wilderness and never came back out. The book tries to examine what had led him there in the first place, whether he’d intended to return at all, and why he wasn’t the first to try and cut all ties with modern society. Krakauer looks to others, such as Henry David Thoreau ( Walden is the original escape from society book and a must-read for anybody fascinated by this subject), who successfully parted from the rat race, as well as the reasons McCandless initially fled from well-to-do family life years before and never contacted them again in his search for something more profound and meaningful. While most readers may disagree with McCandless’s methods, his motives seem far more familiar and relatable.

Publisher: Pan Macmillan, Buy at Amazon.com

The Living Mountain (1977) – Nan Shepherd

Perhaps one of the finest pieces of nature writing ever committed to paper is The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd. Sadly, it’s also one of the most underrated books. The research for her book was undertaken in and around 1942, during the Second World War, which didn’t trouble the wilds of Scotland too badly. Here, the stark beauty of the Cairngorms seems to mirror the harsh reality of war. But Shepherd’s deep examination of the various microcosms of life that thrive on the region’s mountains is really a poem that exalts life. It’s a celebration of survival and endurance. Her wonderful book almost never made it to print, lying in a drawer for decades until a friend read it and encouraged her to seek out a publisher. We’re lucky it did.

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The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

The Motorcycle Diaries (1992) – Che Guevara

Even if Che Guevara never became the revolutionary and icon of a generation that he did, The Motorcycle Diaries is a fascinating first-person account of travel’s capacity to broaden the mind. The young medic Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara sets out from his home in Buenos Aires with his friend Alberto Granado sharing a motorcycle ‘La Poderosa’ and in his pointed recollections, you can almost feel Che’s ideological shift. He sees poverty and pain and beauty in the poor communities they visit, and through this, we learn a lot about how Guevara became a key player in the Cuban Revolution. But it’s also a beautiful rumination about the paths we take in life and the importance of curiosity.

Publisher: Perennial, Buy at Amazon.com

Notes from a Small Island (1995) – Bill Bryson

You can’t really write a top travel literature list and omit Bill Bryson. He’s one of the finest travel writers still producing books. Notes from a Small Island is particularly intriguing because, while most of the books that make any top travel literature list tend to be written by Brits, this is a book about Britain, written by an American. And it’s a delightfully observed book at that, pinpointing the eccentricities and unusual aspects of the island nation that most Brits would never think twice about, but when seen through foreign eyes suddenly become absurd. Bryson is especially gifted at making even the most mundane things seem funny. His books neatly balance thorough research and scholarship with humour and keen observation, effectively amalgamating all of the key aspects of travel literature into one inimitable style.

Publisher: Black Swan, Buy at Amazon.com

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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson (Photo: Wolf Gang via Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0)

On the Road (1957) – Jack Kerouac

Before modern travel literature’s more self-aware phase that started in the 1970s, we had what essentially kick-started the great 20 th -century American cultural upheaval: The Beat Movement. Kerouac was writing about sexual promiscuity, wanton drug use and giving the establishment the middle finger way before it was cool to do so. Well-educated and moving in New York’s literary circles, Kerouac’s thinly-veiled characters in On the Road (substituting Old Bull Lee for William S. Burroughs, Dean Moriarty for Neal Cassady, Carlo Marx for Allen Ginsberg, and Sal Paradise for himself) are painted into a quasi-fictional account of his cross-country jaunts in the late 1940s. The post-war world was much-changed; the white picket fence America with its Jim Crow segregation and uptight Bible-belt hypocrisy were no longer acceptable. Around the same time, J.D. Salinger was branding it phoney, while Kerouac was realising this in his own way, by embracing escapism and drugs. On the Road still resonates today; both the book and the Beats gave licence to a generation of youths to question the oppressive system that became all too obvious in the 60s.

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On The Road by Jack Kerouac (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

The Road to Oxiana (1937) – Robert Byron

Much of the Afghanistan and Iran of Byron’s writing has disappeared, making the precision of his prose all the more valuable. The Road to Oxiana has all the classic elements of earlier travel narratives in it, scholarship, keen observation but also the kind of humour and casual presentation that would become far more popular in the writing styles common to the latter half of the 20 th century. Byron’s constant use of Marjoribanks to replace the name of the Persian ruler of the time was designed to evade censure or punishment in case his notebooks were confiscated and read. The humour of this rebelliousness is not lost when read today, even if some of his style may feel a little bit dated now. His architectural descriptions may be among some of the finest in all of travel literature.

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The Road to Oxiana by Robert Byron (Photo: Paul Stafford for TravelMag.com)

Rome and a Villa (1952) – Eleanor Clark

Because the majority of travel writing is crafted around a voyage or quest of some sort, we expect the movement to transcend places, countries even. What Clark does exceptionally well in Rome and a Villa is offer an in-depth depiction of just one city: Rome. This book, although not particularly tied to or crafted around any one specific idea, offers a deeper understanding of The Eternal City based on Clark’s explorations, often on foot. Indeed, her scholarly treatment of the Italian capital brings the city’s rich, storied past to life in imaginative and illuminating ways that offer fresh insight on a place that we may easily think has already been well covered already. Which goes to show that places change with the times offering an opportunity for fresh perspectives. There’s nowhere that is dull or too well-known in travel writing if handled by the right scribe.

Publisher: Harper Perennial, Buy at Amazon.com

Shadow of the Silk Road (2007) – Colin Thubron

Colin Thubron’s fascination with worlds that are ostensibly closed off to westerners has often led him into places that many others wouldn’t think to go. He visited China before it had opened up to the world, and the same goes for Soviet Russia. In Shadow of the Silk Road Thubron exhibits why his books are perhaps the most masterfully crafted of all contemporary travel literature. His pacing and descriptive writing are exquisite, particularly in this book, in which he journeys from Xi’an to Antakya in Turkey following the old ways, through Central Asia, once known as the Silk Road. The worlds he uncovers and the people he meets are painstakingly woven into a rich text, much like a hand-woven Persian rug, that is one of the most evocative pieces of travel writing out there.

Publisher: Vintage, Buy at Amazon.com

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Travels with Myself and Another (1979) – Martha Gellhorn

Even if Martha Gellhorn was writing today, she would rightly be upheld as one of the great journalists, but given that she was doing it decades ago, often better than her counterparts in a male-dominated field, is even more remarkable. The ‘Another’ that accompanies Gellhorn through much of the book was her former husband Ernest Hemingway, but the book also includes memoir from Africa in which she voyages solo. The book is presented as a collection of essays, a format that has become increasingly common in travel writing and which effectively allows the book to focus on more than one topic. Gellhorn’s writing includes keen observation, lively wit and a really sharp political outlook.

Publisher: Eland Publishing Ltd., Buy at Amazon.com

The Valleys of the Assassins (1934) – Freya Stark

Stark was an incredible human being. Fluent in numerous languages, including Farsi, she travelled the world often alone at a time when even men undertaking such journeys were considered intrepid. Stark was particularly drawn to the Middle East and was able to recount the stories of the women there, living in devout Muslim communities, in a way no man would ever have been able to do. She also discovered regions that had not been explored by Westerners before, including the Valley of the Assassins, which forms the basis of this eponymous book, receiving the Royal Geographical Society’s prestigious Back Award in the process. She continued to write books well into her 90s (releasing work over six decades) and died in Italy at the age of 100.

Publisher: Modern Library Inc., Buy at Amazon.com

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (2012) – Cheryl Strayed

Some may question this popular book’s inclusion on a list of the all-time greats, but it really has all the ingredients of a classic exploration of the human psyche. The physical duress that Strayed experienced on her hike of the Pacific Crest Trail (which runs from California’s border with Mexico to Washington’s border with Canada), and the gradual loss of her toenails as a result, is depicted with visceral precision. Her self-inflicted pain mirrors the mental health and dependency issues that plagued her before embarking on the feat, and in the process, we discover the restorative power of travel, of meeting new people and of forcing ourselves to step beyond our comfortably-positioned boundaries. Like any good travel literature, this book sheds light on why travel is so addictive, powerful and pertinent. Just like all the other books on this list, you’ll finish it wanting to plan your next trip.

Publisher: Atlantic Books, Buy at Amazon.com

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David Linton (born Newburgh NY 1956) is a Temporal Media Artist traveling the vectors of sound, light, subculture, media ontology, and signal flow. Since his arrival on the downtown NYC experimental arts scene at the end of the 1970’s Linton has consistently sustained a multi-faceted reputation as an innovative and influential collaborator as well as a driven solo performer over the course of this 30+ year period. After his mid 70’s student days devoted to exploring experimental film under the primary formative if unsettling influence of american avant guard legend Ken Jacobs -Linton arrived in NYC in his chosen role as a hi energy punk era trapset drummer with attitude to spare.  From there he rapidly developed an innovative ultra personal approach to producing hybrid musical/sound scores for the many collaborative dance, theater, & performance contexts the downtown milieu of the day provided (realizing notable and in some cases award winning works with ‘punk’ ballet diva Karole Armitage and theatrical art stars the Wooster Group ie…)  all the while maintaining his stride as a drummer in demand. Within a decade filled with a good deal of touring and recording percussion work among fellow musicians: Lee Ranaldo, Rhys Chatham , Glenn Branca, Elliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins and others - he would become equally well known for high energy improvised solo performances on his hand built early electro-acoustic hybrid drum kit... upon which he would erect spontaneous sonic monoliths from piecemeal slabs of analog sound triggered in time by each and every contact miked drum hit  - as well as for his marginally more relaxed & explorative soundscape productions usually rendered to tape for theatrical playback . In 1986 a studio expansion of his live drum/trigger approach led to an elite edition solo Lp  "Orchesography" (issued on vinyl only for Glenn Branca’s “Neutral Records” label) which delivered an unlikely collusion of distorted classical motifs, street beats, & slabs of early sampling tek noise - all intermingling in a context derived from the theatrical post modernism indigenous to the downtown arts environment of the day - to a not yet entirely ‘tuned in’ public.

     By the turn of the decade Linton felt compelled to move on - leaving the drum kit and physical percussion behind - to explore new tools… By 1990 David had for the most part withdrawn from performing in the live percussion vein to concentrate on the vocabulary of entirely electronic music and the resultant paradigm shift in performance priorities that this new ‘compressed’ format demanded. *With a couple of notable exceptions: In 1991 David briefly took up sticks to attend to percussion duties required by Diamanda Galas’ Plague Mass as incarnated at the Cathedral of St John the Divine, NYC and subsequently recorded and released by Mute records * Once a drummer always a drummer… yet it was the technologically mediated aspect that had deeply insinuated itself in Linton’s work over the course of it’s first decade which was destined to stay nearest at hand in the core of all subsequent work.

Throughout the 90’s Linton became an ever more dedicated advocate for the expansion and appreciation of realtime performance in electronic media through the production & design of underground event/environments such as ‘SoundLab’ (1996)  and eventually ‘UnityGain’ (1997-2008).  In 2001 Linton’s fascination with instantaneous collaborative audio visual communication between sound and projection artists led to the launch of UGTV - a Manhattan cable TV/webcast project - Unitygain Television (2001-2004) - for which he was the curating producer/director working in conjunction with DCTV (downtown community television center) and MNN (manhattan neighborhood network) along with a crew of graduate design students from the Parson’s School of Design Digital Department. UGTV sought to present live in studio performances from some the finest electronic innovators on the NY audio visual scene mixed live to cable TV uplink 'on air' at 1AM Sunday Mornings. While this period proved to provide fertile ground for imminent development in areas that had remained dormant in Linton’s work - primarily those dealing with visuality in conjunction with aurality - it did for some time deflect his energy vector as a solo performer in favor of the more organizational role of curator / director / producer while at the same time allowing for some new growth and focus upon overall design parameters that would soon prove to be useful in the next phase of his own realtime media based Art.

     In 2003 David was invited to curate the Roulette Mixology Festival which convened at the Performing Garage in June… this proved to be a concentrated who’s who of the NYC multimedia arts of the day…

     In 2004 David embarked upon his present course with the launch of his first solo audio-visual project: "bicamRL AV" Having by this time tired of the reductive micro clime of the digital audio work process Linton was drawn back to the basic energies of analog processes via a simple hack he devised to cross patch analog audio and video signals driven by sine tone oscillators combined within closed circuit rescan feedback loop… This primitive hack formed the basis of a system he would soon develop into a quite effective live performance vehicle which he christened “the bicameral research sound & projection system” and subsequently shortened to bicamRL AV.

With his “Bicameral Research Sound & Projection System” (2004) Linton has aimed to make vibrational wave induced perceptual energy states manifest via the deployment of interconnected proportional measures of electric sound & pulsing light in live action with hand manipulated objects in physical (live camera) space. Employing an integrated recursive audio & video feedback system of his own perversely simple design modulated by freehand intervention he delivers a vigorous eye, ear, and - sometimes - body shaking realtime audio visual performance from which a kind of retro-tech animist ritual “medicine show” emerges where subject and object blur. Thematically David likes to consider that within the 20th Century 60 Hz alternating electrical current gradually came to function as a primary subliminal Prana in the mass bio-energetic body/culture of human life in North America…

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How a Single Travel Writer Managed to Piss Off an Entire Country

L OUISE LINTON DID WHAT MANY OF US DID: She volunteered abroad, then came back and wrote about it. Unlike the rest of us, though, she managed to piss off an entire country. Linton, a Scottish actress and producer, went to Zambia back in 1999 when she was 18-years-old to volunteer at a commercial fishing lodge in Zambia. While there, she claims she was caught up in the Congolese civil war which had spilled over into Zambia, and eventually had to leave. Her book, titled In Congo’s Shadow: One Girl’s Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa , is being accused of being a wildly inaccurate depiction of Zambia, and of also being one of the worst examples of the “White Savior Complex” in travel writing today.

You can read an excerpt she wrote for the book’s release over at the Telegraph. If you don’t want to subject yourself to it, just know that yes, it does indeed contain lines like, “I tried not to think what the rebels would do to the ‘skinny white muzungu with long angel hair’ if they found me,” and “Should I stay and care for Zimba, risking my life? Or flee to the safety of my family and break her heart?”

Zimba, of course, was a 6-year-old HIV-positive orphan, whose “greatest joy was to sit on my lap and drink from a bottle of Coca-Cola.”

Inaccuracies and outcry

There’s been a bit of an outcry among Zambians since the piece was first published in the Telegraph, and the hashtag #LintonLies is now trending. What “lies” are they referring to? Well, Congolese rebels never came over into Zambia , which is actually one of the most peaceful countries in Africa. And the name “Zimba” is a tribal name — from a tribe that her character Zimba did not belong to. On top of this, she mentioned “monsoons” (Zambia doesn’t have monsoons), “12-inch-spiders” (nor do they have those), and she said the rebels were spilling over from the Hutu-Tutsi conflict, which, incidentally, happened in neither Zambia nor Congo, but in Rwanda.

Most offensive, though, is that the piece hits every stereotype about Africa — political unrest, HIV, orphans, poverty, and the idea that the only thing that can fix the problem is a white girl.

Rebels blew up the main water pipe to the village in Northern Zambia . Locals think it’s a waterfall #LintonLies pic.twitter.com/6Nqyqbet5P — Xhaka Zulu (@MaceWimbu) July 5, 2016

For her part, Linton is surprised at all of the negative feedback: “I am genuinely dismayed and very sorry to see that I have offended people as this was the very opposite of my intent. I wrote this book with the hope of conveying my deep humility, respect and appreciation for the people of Zambia and my sincere hope of making a positive impact there as an 18-year-old volunteer in 1999.”

In truth, Linton’s piece, terrible though it may be, is part of a much larger problem within travel writing.

This isn’t confined to Linton

As a professional travel writer, this story hits a little bit close to home. Not only have I read a hundred different versions of this piece over the past decade, I’ve probably written it myself (though I really hope, when I did, that mine was a bit more self-aware). The main difference is that she managed to get her story published over at The Telegraph , while mine went up on my Facebook page and a now-defunct Blogspot site.

You’ve undoubtedly seen Facebook friends post their “white savior” pictures as well: they are pervasive enough that there’s a “White Savior Barbie” Instagram account dedicated exclusively to parodying them.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the fly covered African child, to me: I lift my face to the sky to usher them home into my arms. #maybeonedaytheywillmakeastatueofme #saviorstatue #libertylovin #humblehugs #theagilityofhumility #imonlyone #buticanhugmany #letthelittlechildrencometome #justlikejesus #greatwhitehope #hugsforhumanity A photo posted by Barbie Savior (@barbiesavior) on Apr 11, 2016 at 11:36am PDT

What’s most upsetting is that most people who write pieces like this have the best of intentions, and genuinely think they are making the world more “aware” of problems like HIV and extreme poverty. And it’s understandable that people would find this to be a compelling narrative: movies like The Last Samurai, Dances With Wolves and even Avatar have “white savior” themes, and have been relatively popular. So it’s no surprise that kids who travel abroad find themselves drawn to the idea that they are saviors rather than guests.

Travel writers need to do better

As a genre, travel writing is spectacularly guilty of fetishizing other peoples, playing up Messiah narratives, and making other cultures seem worse than they really are. In fact, there’s a very big problem at travel writing’s very core: why would you send me, a white dude from Ohio, to tell you about life in “darkest Africa,” when you could very easily ask an African who has lived there all of their life to tell you about it instead? We have the technology to solicit travel tips from locals literally everywhere on earth. So why is travel writing still so predominantly white?

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Update: The Telegraph has removed the piece. We’ve linked to the reproduced piece on another blog.

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The Life of a Travel Writer with David Farley

Author and Professor, David Farley

When I started in the travel industry, one writer came up often in conversation: David Farley. He was a rock-star writer who taught at NYU and Columbia, wrote for AFAR, National Geographic, the New York Times, and many other publications. I always wondered who this guy was. He was almost mythical. He was never at any events.

But, one day, he turned up and, over the years, we became good friends. His writing tips and advice have helped me immensely, and his impressive résumé and keen sense of story are why I partnered with him on this website’s travel writing course .

Unlike me, David is a more traditional magazine/freelance/newspaper writer. He’s not a blogger. And. today I thought interview David about his life as a travel writer.

Nomadic Matt: Tell everyone about yourself! David Farley: A few interesting facts about me: My weight at birth was 8 lbs., 6 oz. I grew up in the Los Angeles suburbs. I was in a rock band in high school; we played late-night gigs at Hollywood clubs, and we weren’t very good. I travel a lot, but I have no interest in counting the number of countries I’ve been to.

I’ve lived in San Francisco, Paris, Prague, Berlin, and Rome, but I currently live in New York City .

How did you get into travel writing? The usual way: by accident. I was in graduate school and my girlfriend at the time, a writer, proofread one of my 40-page research papers — I think it was on the exciting topic of the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s — and afterward she said, “You know, don’t take this the wrong way, but your writing was better than I expected.”

She encouraged me to write stuff other than boring history papers. I heeded her call.

One of the first stories that got published was about a pig killing I attended in a village on the Czech-Austrian border. After that, enough of the stories got published, mostly in travel publications, that by default I became a “travel writer.”

I ended up breaking into Condé Nast Traveler, working my way all the way up to the features section, as well as the New York Times. Eventually,  I wrote a book  that Penguin published. Then I expanded my field of interest to food and now I often combine food and travel.

Having done this for about two decades, one thing I’ve learned is that the “expectations of success” is really just a myth in our minds. I always thought, for example, that once I write for the New York Times I’ll have “made it.” Then it happened and didn’t really feel like I had done so.

Maybe when I write a feature for a big travel magazine? Nope.

Maybe a book published by one of the biggest publishing houses in the world? Not really.

The point is: just keep striving in the direction of success and forget about various plateaus you want to get to. I think it’s a much healthier way to go.

Do you have any favorite experiences/destinations that you’ve been able to write about? I’d long been wanting to go to Hanoi to investigate, report on, and write about the origins of pho. I finally convinced the New York Times to let me do it in February. It was amazing and delicious.

But then, as we all know, the pandemic decided to swirl its way around the world, and, as a result, most travel stories—including this one—are rotting away on editors’ hard drives for the time being.

I’ve been really lucky to convince editors to let me delve deep into some things that I’m fascinated with and/or love such as spending two weeks hanging out with the guys who cremate bodies on the banks of the Ganges River in Varanasi to see what I could learn about life and death .

I got to spend a month volunteering in a refugee camp in Greece and write a dispatch about it .

I went cycling across southern Bosnia with four great friends following a bike trail that was carved out of an erstwhile train track.

I got drunk on vodka with old Ukrainian ladies in their homes in the Exclusion Zone in Chernobyl.

And I hiked across a swath of Kenya with my uncle, sister, and brother and law for a good cause: we raised thousands of dollars for an AIDS orphanage there and also got to spend a few days with the children.

I could go on and on — which is precisely what makes this a rewarding profession.

What are some of the biggest illusions people have about travel writing? That you can peel off a feature story for a travel magazine just like that [snaps fingers]. It takes so much work for each story to get to the type of experiences we end up writing about — a lot of phone calls and emails to set up interviews and to get your foot in the door some places.

When a magazine is paying you to go to a place so you can come back with an interesting story, you have to do a lot of behind-the-scenes work to ensure that you’re going to have a good story. It rarely just happens on its own.

Travel stories are essentially a fake or altered reality, filtered through the writer and based on how much reporting she or he did on the spot, as well as her or his past experiences and knowledge about life and the world.

How has the industry changed in recent years? Is it still possible for new writers to break into the industry? Very much. In the last few years, we’ve seen an industry-wide push to be more inclusive of female and BIPOC writers, which is a great thing. The publishing industry – magazines, newspapers, books – is always ready to accept great, new writers.

The key is that you, as a writer, need to learn how the industry works first.

So, how do people even go about breaking into the industry? In the decade or so I taught travel writing at NYU and Columbia University, the students of mine that went on to write for the New York Times, National Geographic, and other publications were not necessarily the most talented in the class; they were the most driven. They really wanted it.

And that made all the difference.

What that means is they put enough energy into this endeavor to learn how the game is played: how to write a pitch, how to find an editor’s email address, how to improve your writing, learning the nuts and bolts of writing, and expertly knowing the market that’s out there for travel articles (i.e. learning the types of stories that various publications publish).

It seems there are fewer paying publications these days and it’s harder to find work. How does that affect new writers? What can new writers do to stand out? I realize this is a hard one, but  living abroad is really helpful . You end up with so much material for personal essays and you gain a knowledge of the region that allows you to become something of an authority on the area. It gives you a leg up on other people who are pitching stories about that place.

That said, you don’t have to go far to write about travel. You can write about the place where you live.

After all, people travel there, right? You can write everything from magazine and newspaper travel section pieces to personal essays, all about where you’re currently residing.

How do you think COVID-19 will affect the industry? There’s no doubt that the pandemic has put a hold on travel writing a bit. People are still writing about travel but it’s mostly been pandemic-related stories. That said, no one knows what the future holds. Which in a perverse way–not just about the travel writing industry but in the bigger picture as well–makes life and reality kind of interesting too.

And while many people are losing their jobs and magazines are folding, I have a feeling the industry will bounce back. It just might not be over night. Which is why it’s a perfect time to build up those writing chops. You can also shift your focus for the time being to writing about local places and about other niches (food, tech, lifestyle) based on your expertise and interest.

What can new writers do now to improve their writing? Read. A lot. And don’t just read, but read like a writer.

Deconstruct the piece in your mind as you’re reading.

Pay attention to how the writer has structured her or his piece, how they opened it and concluded it and so on. Also, read books on good writing.

This really helped me a lot when I was first starting out.

For most of us, talking to strangers is not easy. Plus, our moms told us not to do so. But the best travel stories are those that are most reported. So the more we talk to people, the more likely other opportunities arise and the more material you have to work with. It makes the writing of the story so much easier.

Sometimes you’ll be right in the middle of a situation and think: this would make a great opening to my story. My good friend Spud Hilton, former travel editor at the San Francisco Chronicle, says that the dirty secret to good travel writing is that bad experiences make the best stories. This is true, but please don’t put yourself in a bad situation just for your writing. You can write a great piece without having to get your wallet stolen or losing your passport.

What books do you suggest new travel writers read? There are a few books out there on how to be a travel writer, but they’re all embarrassingly abysmal. For me, I write William Zinsser’s “On Writing Well” and James B. Stewart’s “Follow the Story” when I was first starting out and they were very helpful.

For a memoir or personal essay, Anne Lamott’s “Bird by Bird” is excellent.

For great travel books, it depends on what your interests are. For history-laden travel, anything by Tony Perrottet and David Grann are incredible; for humor, David Sedaris, A.A. Gill, Bill Bryson, and J. Maarten Troost; for just straight-up great writing, Joan Didion, Susan Orlean, and Jan Morris.

I highly recommend reading your way through the series of annual Best American Travel Writing anthologies.

Where do you find inspiration for your articles? What motivates you? I get my motivation and inspiration from unlikely sources. I think about the creative masters and wonder how I can tap into their genius.

What did Austrian painter Egon Schiele see when he looked at a subject and then the canvas?

How did Prince put out an album a year from 1981 to 1989, each one a masterpiece and each one cutting-edge and like nothing anyone else at the time was doing?

Is there a way to apply this creativity to travel writing?

I’m not saying I’m on par with these geniuses — far from it — but if I could somehow even slightly be inspired by their creativity, I’d be better off for it.

More specifically for the articles that I end up writing, a lot of it just falls into my lap. The key, though, is recognizing it’s a story. A friend will casually mention some weird facts about a place in the world and it’s our job to take that fact and ask yourself: is there a story there?

What’s the most difficult part about being a travel writer?  The rejection. You really have to get used to it and just accept that it’s part of your life. It’s really easy to take it seriously and let it get you down. I know — I have done this.

You just have to brush it off and move on, get back on that literary bike, and keep trying until someone finally says yes. Be tenacious.

Writing is a craft. You don’t have to be born with a natural talent for it. You just need a strong desire to become better at it. And, by taking writing classes, reading books about it, talking to people about it, etc. you will become a better writer.

If you could go back in time and tell young David one thing about writing, what would it be?  I would have taken more classes to both keep learning — one should never stop learning about writing — and to force myself to write when perhaps I didn’t want to.

I think we can all learn from each other, and so putting yourself in that kind of instructive environment is helpful. I took one writing class — a nonfiction writing course at UC Berkeley — and it was super helpful.

If you’re looking to improve your writing or just start as a travel writer, David and I teach a very detailed and robust travel writing course. Through video lectures, personalized feedback, and examples of edited and deconstructed stories, you’ll get the course David taught at NYU and Columbia – without the college price.

For more from David, check out his book, An Irreverent Curiosity or visit his blog, Trip Out .

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Couple clock up 22 years as Travelodge guests

It is a record that puts Alan Partridge's stay in a budget motel to shame.

Steve Coogan's spoof radio and television personality only managed 182 days in the Linton Travel Tavern off the M11. But David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70, have spent more than 20 years living in the real-life equivalent - a Travelodge.

The pair have spent more than £100,000 at Travelodge hotels even though they own their own flat in Sheffield, because they say it is cheaper and safer than living in their own home.

Now their current accommodation, room one at the Gonerby Moor Travelodge on the A1 in Lincolnshire, is to be renamed in their honour.

The couple's love of Travelodges began in 1985 when they stayed in one at Barton-under-Needwood, Staffordshire.

They stayed in another on the A1 at Newark, Nottinghamshire, while visiting a relative, and gradually began to move in.

In July 1997, the pair became permanent guests at Gonerby Moor Travelodge. They return to their flat only once a fortnight to pick up their post.

Mr and Mrs Davidson book 12 months in advance to get the cheapest rates, paying an average of £90 a week which includes electricity and heating bills, laundry and bedmaking.

For meals, the couple walk across the car park to the service station's Little Chef or visit nearby restaurants.

Mr Davidson, a former second world war Royal Navy sailor, said: "We get great rates because we book well in advance and we even have our own personal housekeeper. It doesn't get much better than that, does it?"

Mrs Davidson suffers from a bone disease and uses a wheelchair so she prefers their large, ground-floor room with a specially adapted en-suite bathroom, to their first-floor flat in Sheffield.

The couple, who have a son, David, 54, have friends and family round for tea and exchange Christmas and birthday presents with the Travelodge staff.

Mr Davidson said: "We do have to be a bit choosy about what we keep in our room as it can fill up easily - but our must-have item is our framed personal photographs."

The pair, who have been married for 54 years, even use Travelodges when they go on holiday.

"We've just returned from three weeks in Savannah and, although the American Travelodges aren't owned by the same company, we still feel it is the only place to stay," said Mr Davidson.

Paul Anstey, Travelodge's director of operations for the north, said: "We know Travelodge has really loyal customers throughout the UK but the Davidsons are unique - they've literally made a Travelodge into their home.

"To recognise their remarkable loyalty, we are going to rename their room The Davidsons' Suite and mount a plaque in reception celebrating their 10-year anniversary at the hotel."

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“We were all waiting.” That’s how Josh Brolin describes the six-month gap between when his first TV series in 20 years, Outer Range , premiered on Prime Video in April 2022, and when the streamer finally announced the commissioning of a second season that October. “There was a big fan base, but it wasn’t a runaway hit,” says Brolin, both a star and executive producer on the project. “I was like, ‘Look, I feel that this is worth it. I can go do a movie—I don’t have to do this—but there’s something in this that’s golden. Let’s keep exploring it.’” After receiving the official green light, Brolin jumped at the chance to “refine our idea” for the high-concept series, an effort which pays rich rewards in Outer Range ’s second season, all seven episodes of which will premiere on May 16. It required a makeover behind the scenes.

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Imogen Poots and Josh Brolin.

Season two features a new showrunner and executive producer in Charles Murray, a TV veteran known for writing on Luke Cage, Sons of Anarchy, and Star Wars: The Clone Wars; he replaces creator Brian Watkins, a playwright who made his screenwriting and producing debut with Outer Range. (He’s no longer credited as an EP on the series.) In his first extended interview about the second season, Brolin tells me that the change felt important to Outer Range ’s future success. “With Brian, I think that he was given a responsibility that was irresponsible given his experience. He had never been on a set before,” he says. “It makes perfect sense to me why we were meandering at times.” Brolin felt frustrated with the lack of answers provided in the twisty mystery’s first season: “We had some people involved that were like, ‘You need to just trust’…and I was like, Yeah, bullshit. We need to know. We’re the storytellers and we create the mystery.” (Watkins could not be reached for comment. A source familiar with the production says Prime Video and Watkins parted ways on positive terms.)

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Tom Pelphrey.

“Create the mystery” rather concisely describes the work that went into outlining season two. Outer Range launched on the fascinating, peculiar note of a taciturn cowboy named Royal Abbott (Brolin) encountering a giant metaphysical void on his vast Wyoming ranch—sparking the particular interest of a mercurial young drifter, Autumn ( Imogen Poots ), who shows up on his property, and gradually involving both his family and that of his ranching rival, Wayne Tillerson ( Will Patton ).

We glean Royal is keeping secrets surrounding this strange occurrence. His daughter-in-law, Rebecca ( Kristen Connolly ), goes missing, and then later on, so does his nine-year-old granddaughter, Amy ( Olive Abercrombie ). By the finale, we realize we’re in the thick of a dizzying time-travel saga: that Royal was actually born in the 19th century, that the hole transported him to the present day after he shot his father as a child, and that Autumn is actually Amy—from the future. Oh, and one other cliff-hanger: With his daughter and wife both missing, Royal’s son Perry ( Tom Pelphrey ) helplessly jumps into the dark void after learning (some of) the truth. We have no idea where he wound up.

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Such a dense plot unfurled against stunning Western backdrops—captured over an arduous eight-month shoot in New Mexico—and was enlivened by terrific performances, though Brolin laments not conveying the show’s ideas and answers with enough clarity. But Murray, a fan of season one, saw all of the finale’s game-changing twists as, ironically, the perfect way in. “At the end you went, ‘Oh, my God, there’s so many directions you can go in, so many things you can answer and build on,’” he tells me. “What better place to enter a show?”

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Outer Range ’s second season opens in 1984, planting its flag in the realm of time-travel drama. We meet a young ranch hand and a close friend by his side ( Christian James and Megan West ) simply working the land. Then, by premiere’s end, we realize their true identities: It’s a younger Royal and his soon-to-be wife, Cecilia ( Lili Taylor in the main present timeline). They’re encountered by another character, from another timeline. This reveal sets the stage for the show’s fresh approach to narrative in season two, gamely hopping between different decades (and centuries) with newfound propulsion. The odd humor and esoteric dialogue, meanwhile, remain in place. “We didn’t want to lose things that we got from Brian that were incredible—the absurdity and the symbolism of the hole, and however you chose to define that as a viewer,” says Brolin.

An astrophysicist worked in the writers room to help map out the rules and realities of Outer Range ’s version of time travel. “But if we found a cool way to do something and we couldn’t tie it to an emotion, we didn’t do it,” Murray adds. “The biggest part of what time travel meant to me and the writers was: How can this help us expose something that a character’s going through?” With Perry, who does return to the series, the void draws him in through his experiences of grief and isolation. “It becomes interactive in that way, where you get to play out some of these fantasies of [going to another time],” Brolin says.

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Brolin likens the void’s significance to that of a drug. “It has this hold on you and it has this fear around it, and it’s how each person deals with that fear,” he says. “For [Royal] it was denial. He shot his father, he jumped in the hole, he came out at another time and he was adopted by this family—that basically saved his life.” Brolin expanded his list of duties on season two to include director, helming the pivotal penultimate episode, and he opens his debut on the show with an ominous quote from Royal that ties some of the series’ biggest ideas together: “Nobody understands time and what it really is.” That sentiment of uncertainty circles Autumn as she grapples with the nature of her existence in the aftermath of season one’s reveal. It haunts the youngest Abbott son, Rhett ( Lewis Pullman ), as he considers a life away from the mystery swallowing his family whole. And it consumes the Tillersons, especially sons Luke and Billy ( Shaun Sipos and Noah Reid ), as rivalries with the Abbotts and with each other come to a head.

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The line also propels the season’s standout episode, a standalone directed by Reservation Dogs alum Blackhorse Lowe. It’s focused on Deputy Sheriff Joy ( Tamara Podemski ), who, after working to maintain order back in present-day Wyoming during season one, finds herself lost in the 1886 wilderness and forced to survive. In her spotlight, she plays the badass role of Western hero. “As an African American, I know what’s missing from the lay of the land,” Murray says. “[Let’s see] a Native American female hero in this particular way. Let’s see her do some rootin’ tootin’ shootin’, like we used to see every Saturday morning when we’d get up to watch The Lone Ranger. ”

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Royal remains Outer Range ’s center of gravity, of course, and faces a reckoning that speaks to Murray’s big question of the season: “What happens when a man who’s held so many secrets finally decides to tell the biggest one?” Most compellingly, we watch him navigate a fraught new dynamic with Cecilia, as she’s brought into the layers of mystery surrounding her husband and compelled to act—with Taylor and Brolin brilliantly playing off of each other and delivering powerhouse performances. “Cecilia’s like, ‘Fuck you, you’ve got to be kidding me—because of your secrets, it’s literally annihilated our family and our reality,’” Brolin says. “That’s the messy shit that I want to go see. I identify with it. How do these people navigate through this? How do you navigate through a life?”

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Murray calls it a kind of Close Encounters problem, a desire for truth that turns into a punishing reality. Whether the truth brings Cecilia and Royal closer together or pushes them apart is one of many subtler dramas driving the season. While answers come more clearly and frequently this time around, there are still plenty of new wrinkles being introduced, many elements still dangling—ready to be plucked for a potential season three, as Murray hopes. “We bonded from the jump. We didn’t dance around each other—we went straight to the work,” Murray says of his relationship with Brolin. “Josh just said to me, ‘So I’ve got ideas about season three,’ and that means that I get to talk to him and hang out with him more.”

As the cast told me before the series premiere, Outer Range ’s first-season shoot could be brutal. Freezing, long days. Tough conditions. “We were with people with a little lack of experience, so the idea of me running in the snow naked was super attractive to them—but for me, after 40 years, it was more like, Can I do this without dying [or] getting frostbitten?” Brolin says. “And [season two] was still difficult. We were out in the middle of nowhere. We were shooting a lot of nights.” But, he adds, coming back, figuring out the logistics of production and the story, it feels worth it—and then some. It reminds him of his other big 2024 project. “Even promoting Dune 2 right now, the first Dune was [released] during COVID and all that, and it did well—but not what it’s doing now,” Brolin says. “A lot of things that work like slow burns, they don’t necessarily hit right away.”

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President Vladimir Putin  has arrived for his first-ever presidential visit to Chukotka in Russia 's Far East - just 55 miles from the US state of Alaska . 

Putin arrived in Anadyr, the local capital of the Chukotka region this morning after flying from Moscow some nine time zones away. 

Chukotka is the easternmost region of Russia, with a maritime border on the Bering Strait with Alaska.

The Russian president was met in Anadyr by a motorcade and was whisked away in a limousine amid frigid temperatures of -28C. 

It's the closest he has come to US soil since he met with President  Barack Obama in New York City in 2015.

Chukotka is so close to Alaska that Roman Abramovich - the ex-Chelsea FC owner - was reported to fly to Anchorage in Alaska for lunch when he was the governor of the region from 2001 - 2008.

Putin's visit comes at a time when US-Russian relations are at their lowest ebb in decades amid the war in Ukraine and a growing East-West divide. 

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today landed in Lithuania as part of an unannounced trip to the Baltic states to drum up more support for the conflict. 

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The three Baltic states - all former Soviet republics which are now EU and NATO members - are among Ukraine's staunchest allies.

'Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are our reliable friends and principled partners. Today, I arrived in Vilnius before going to Tallinn and Riga,' Zelensky said on social media platform X, formerly Twitter.

'Security, EU and NATO integration, cooperation on electronic warfare and drones, and further coordination of European support are all on the agenda,' he said.

The Baltic tour marks Zelensky's first official trip abroad this year.

In Lithuania, a key donor to Ukraine, Zelensky said he will hold talks with the president, prime minister and the speaker of parliament, and meet with the Ukrainian community.

The visit comes as other Kyiv allies waver on fresh aid, nearly two years into Russia's invasion.

Ukraine has come under intense Russian shelling in recent weeks, retaliating with strikes on Russia's border city of Belgorod.

Zelensky has urged allies to keep military support flowing and held in-person talks with officials from the United States, Germany and Norway last month.

But an EU aid package worth 50 billion euros ($55 billion) has been stuck in Brussels following a veto by Hungary, while the US Congress remains divided on sending additional aid to Ukraine.

Following his trip to Chukotka, Putin is expected to visit several regions in the Russian Far East to boost his re-election campaign amid the war with Ukraine, which has seen more than 300,000 Russians killed or maimed.

He is due to stand in March, seeking another six years in the Kremlin.

The only Kremlin leader ever to travel to Chukotka previously was Dmitry Medvedev in 2008.

Putin's trip sees him escape a wave of ugly protests in western Russia over hundreds of thousands of people scraping by in freezing conditions due to breakdowns in communal heating supplies.

In Elektrostal, Moscow region, desperate residents say they have had no communal heating - which Russians routinely expect the state to supply usually through piped hot water - for the entire winter so far.

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'It is impossible to be in our homes… We are freezing! We are freezing! We are freezing!' they said. 

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