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There's a Polar Bear on the Porch and a Seal at the Dock
Ittoqqortoormiit, Greenland. 360 folks on the world's most isolated coastline. Grocery deliveries come twice a year.
Aug 9
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Kay Walten
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July 2026
Let Me Tell You About My Dead Friend Harry
Harry had a heart attack in a underwater cave in Mexico. Getting him home to Dallas was the hard part.
Jul 26
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Kay Walten
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The Seaweed Burying the Caribbean's Beaches
For 27 Years I Sold the Beach. The Sea Is Taking It Back.
Jul 19
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Kay Walten
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Kilimanjaro. Breath vs. Ego
A cave diver from Mexico goes up the tallest mountain in Africa carrying a flamingo and something to prove.
Jul 7
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Kay Walten
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June 2026
I Saw A Church Get Reborn
Splash me with holy water, and give me a ticket in the gold section.
Jun 21
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Kay Walten
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A Guy Riding Shotgun with a Shotgun
Tanzania, 2010. I said yes to Africa, no to buses.
Jun 13
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Kay Walten
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Visitors Came for Goat's Milk As A Cure
Interlaken, Switzerland's earliest tourist resort, where wealthy Europeans drank goat's whey for breakfast in 1825
Jun 7
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Kay Walten
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May 2026
Nothing is as scary as getting married in a cave.
Halloween in Mexico 1993
May 30
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Kay Walten
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Athens Taxi Driver Knows Greek Hospitality
He drove me around Athens and showed me the kind of Greek hospitality the cruise ships are killing. What we lose when we stop noticing.
May 24
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Kay Walten
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It Never Looks Like the Postcard
What's in the photos. What isn't.
May 23
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Kay Walten
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Lunch Alone. A foreigner in a foreign place.
Two months earlier I was having business lunches in Baltimore.
May 23
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Kay Walten
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On clowning with Patch Adams and the woman I have never forgotten.
There are incidents in life that hit a raw nerve and you never forget.
May 14
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Kay Walten
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