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The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Our Honeymoon in National Geographic Traveler “Sudden Journeys” Article
By Joshua | April 30th, 2007 | 
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A short piece I wrote about my recent extended honeymoon is included in this National Geographic Traveler feature article entitled “Sudden Journeys: Twenty-five tales of last-minute travel prove that the least-planned trips can provide our longest-lasting memories.” My piece, “Not Your Typical Honeymoon,” is near the bottom of the page, among an incredible assortment of writers, including such heavyweights as Pico Iyer, Mark Jenkins, Rolf Potts, and Arthur Golden. This is the first time I’ve been published in NatGeo and though my story was pulled from the print edition at the last minute, I’m happy they found a place for it. The piece is a broad brush stroke about the 16-month round-the-world trip my wife and I took last year. I’m writing a narrative book about the experience as well. It will draw heavily from these original blog postings.
6 Responses to “Our Honeymoon in National Geographic Traveler “Sudden Journeys” Article”
Hi Josh…the NGeo short literally brought tears to my eyes… who’d a thought? May the gods continue to bless your life together and may you always remember to treat each other as your best friend…
I was killing time at the Bangkok airport at an internet kiosk when I stumbled on your contribution to NGT. Awesome! Sure it’s a bit of a bummer not getting it in print, but you can still say that you have contributed to NGT. Way to go!
Great. You captured the essence in just a few well-crafted paragraphs. Don\’t worry about its being cut from the print edition. People discard paper, but on-line lives forever!
Thanks Claire — I was able to use much of the NG piece in my book proposal; it was good to be forced to think of the trip in such broad strokes.
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[…] I wrote a short piece about our memorable “Ice Week” escapade, which appears online as part of National Geographic Traveler’s Sudden Journeys feature in the May/June issue. There are 25 short vignettes all about the joys of drop-everything-and-go travel, and the few I’ve read so far are fantastic — a variety of voices and voyages. I’m honored to have my story linked among the rest, including some guys I read regularly: Rolf Potts, Jim Benning and Josh Berman. […]