“I last talked at God on the beach at Los Palmas. It was nine years ago. Randy was drowning in front of me.”
Playa Los Palmas, Mexico | Spring of 1998 | CINDY FEY

#1: Red-faced Stranger | By GEORGE McNEILL
#2: The Chauffeurs | By NORMAN BROWN
#3: The Suitcase | By SANDRA A. MILLER

“I never imagined I’d reveal the most unusual place I’ve had sex in front of 800 straight people.”
Panama Canal cruise | December 2004 | By RANDALL SHIRLEY

“The sky drips incessantly, littering red-dirt roads with trash, trickling sewage, and swimming diseases. I’m getting thinner, and my hair is falling out.”
Summer of 2007 | Freetown, Sierra Leone | By AILEA SNELLER

“Racism is an American problem, a gringo issue. That’s what folks say, but as a black American who lived south of the border for 18 months, I beg to differ.”
October 2, 2005 | Antigua, Guatemala | By TAFARI LUMUMBA

“I look at the crematorium with the smokestack, half expecting to see a wisp of gray coming out of it, and I think I might throw up.”
April 2000 | Poland | By DEVORAH KLEIN

“At the same age that I began to exoticize Brazil, Rosie began to be commodified by its flaws.”
February through June, 2005 | Brazil | By LEIGHNA HARRISON

“When it came time to leave for our honeymoon in Honfleur, naturally, my brother had to come along. The more the merrier, right?”
March 1976 | Honfleur, France | By LARRY FENWICK

“Our trans-Atlantic alliance had one last hitch to overcome: my brother-in-law.”
March 1976 | Honfleur, France | By MARIE-CHRISTINE FENWICK