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It was late February 1998 and we were considering our options. We needed to get from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Blantyre, Malawi, by early March. We could wait five days for the TAZARA train or we could leave...

Fourteen hours -- that's how long I've been stuck on this twisted, infuriating road. Trapped in pea soup humidity, scratching the sweat-coated, raw bedbug bites all over my body, trying to ignore my growling stomach...

There is a sea of pilgrims at Jammu’s small railway station. I am travelling with my aunt and grandparents and the only way to travel is the 32-hours train ride to Calcutta. We wait among the Victorian wooden pillars...

Day 5: Tilcara Trek, Argentina Morning: We wake up and make oatmeal. (water) We unfortunately get off track of the GPS and have to backtrack about 60 minutes up a mountain through wild brush.

We were high up and the air seemed more see-through than usual. The only people around for miles, we felt good and ready for our New Year’s Eve in the Peruvian Andes. We spent the day exploring Huascarán National Park...

In my grogginess, I rolled over in my sleeping bag to check on my girlfriend.

I am no athlete. My Norwegian friend is a compulsive rower. These two simple facts should have warned me against making the worst journey of my life while I stayed with her this summer in rural Norway.

“We should experience how the Mozambicans really travel,” my boyfriend and I decided one fateful day in the capital city of Maputo.

Don’t worry; I am not going to tell you another story about delayed Indian trains, broken rickshaws or food poisoning. Indian trains are not all that bad, and certainly can’t be blamed for ‘the worst journey of my life.’

Residents of Bogota will often tell you about the most well preserved colonial town in Colombia, Villa de Lleyva, a 4 hour bus ride from Bogota. Arriving there is a welcome sight after the busy streets of the Bogota...