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The Flying Carpet is our gathering place to swap tales, exchange rants, discuss plans, dream about future travels. Here you'll find stories from our hard-working editors, staff, contributors, and friends, ranging from brief anecdotes and lengthy journeys to thoughtful essays on life, the world, and of course, travel. Find a space, and let the Flying Carpet take you away.
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Editors' Box
Travelers' Tales editors share what's on their minds. Tell us what you think at talkback@travelerstales.com
Larry's Corner
 
Executive Editor Larry Habegger tells stories, talks about travel writing, and ruminates on current events in Larry's Corner. This week, in "Swiss Family Habegger: Luzern and Mount Pilatus," Larry and family hone their skills at missing trains and discover central Switzerland. Have an opinion? Tell him what you think at talkback@travelerstales.com.
James's Corner
Publisher James O'Reilly exhorts you to put worry aside and make travel plans now in I Know What I Did Last Summer.
Also in James's Corner he recommends some great books to read while reflecting on the mayhem in the Middle East and the crisis in Kashmir. Here is an additional list of books that James is reading. If you are a Book Freak, and want to discuss your Malady—because surely you are abnormal—write to James and tell him your favorite books:
james@travelerstales.com. For a few impressions of his travels in to Panama, read "Panamanian
Orchid."
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Editors' Choice
Every week we choose one of the great stories we've received from travelers around the world and present them here as our "Editors' Choice." In "A Portrait of the Artist as a Bold Man," Chelsea Bauch ponders the wonders of Florence. For an archive of these stories go to the Editors' Choice link on The Flying Carpet; for more about the editors, see About Travelers' Tales Staff.
Featured Stories
TT contributor Richard Goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, writes in Homage to Village in the Vaucluse about the Provence book that saved him and why it's been in print for 45 years.
TT Cuba editor Tom Miller recently returned from a month in Nigeria and South Africa. He tells us it was far more than he expected in Thoughts on Africa.
More stories from The Flying Carpet...
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Susan Brady finally left the country! Follow her cooking adventures in Thailand... |
Raj Khadka expounds on the meaning of life. |
In San Francisco, James O'Reilly learns what it means to breathe. |
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Larry Habegger shows us that dreams can come true. |
Jen Leo loved Australia, especially her time in Brissy. |
Tim O'Reilly gets floored by a chapel in the heart of Paris. |
Sean O'Reilly discovers a unique form of worship at a church in San Francisco. |
Tara Austen Weaver cycles the Beara Peninsula in Ireland. |
Natanya Pearlman sees a side to Honduras she didn't know existed. |
