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Destination Sunday: I Saw A Church Get Reborn
Splash me with holy water, and give me a ticket in the gold section. Three nights a week, a light show packs Notre-Dame de Nice.
Jun 21
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Kay Walten
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A Guy Riding Shotgun with a Shotgun
I said yes to Africa, no to buses. Tanzania, 2010. A trip across the bush, a leaking boat, and baboons in Gombe.
Jun 13
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Kay Walten
28
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Visitors Came for Goat's Milk As A Cure
Interlaken, Switzerland visitors came for goat's milk cures in 1825, long before ski lifts & snowboards. 250 years of welcoming guests.
Jun 7
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Kay Walten
21
12
5
May 2026
Nothing is as scary as getting married in a cave.
My grandparents got married in a church. My parents got married in a church. I got married on a wooden platform over a cenote in the jungle on…
May 30
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Kay Walten
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Athens Taxi Driver Knows Greek Hospitality
The driver told me I needed two days, then gave me the whole day anyway. A story about the hospitality the cruise ships can't see.
May 24
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Kay Walten
23
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It Never Looks Like the Postcard
The brochure gets two sentences. The family that's kept a village alive for 300 years gets none. What destinations promote and what's actually there are…
May 23
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Kay Walten
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Lunch Alone. A foreigner in a foreign place.
My resume was four pages. Marketing for Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Pillsbury. The offer came back: $400 dollars. A month. To run a dive shop in Mexico.
May 23
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Kay Walten
15
7
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On clowning with Patch Adams and the woman I have never forgotten.
With a red nose, I clowned through orphanages and hospitals in Guatemala City with Patch Adams. The real one. One stop broke me. I think I know why.
May 14
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Kay Walten
21
8
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What it costs. The Riviera Maya you know, the highways, the resort corridors, the Instagram cenotes.
The Riviera Maya you know. Highways, resorts, Instagram cenotes. It didn't exist yet. I got there before all of it. I stayed 27 years. These are those…
May 13
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Kay Walten
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Grand Hôtel Bain: A Note from the World's Oldest Family-Run Hotel
The patriarch of the world's oldest family-run hotel sent me a note. His 24-year-old son will be the tenth generation. A story from Comps-sur-Artuby.
May 10
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Kay Walten
15
8
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April 2026
1985. The trip that started before my life in Mexico started.
The first trip is always the one that does it.
Apr 30
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Kay Walten
25
4
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Pucker Up: A Town Built on Lemons
Inside the Menton lemon orchard the Gannac family built from a fallow hillside in 1991, and what it reveals about farm tourism and succession.
Apr 26
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Kay Walten
12
5
2
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