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Editor-in-chief of Westways + AAA Explorer. Alum: @latimes, @BBC, @worldhum. Views are my own.

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Jim Benning’s Journalist Portfolio

Into Peru's Sacred Valley

Into Peru's Sacred Valley

I was in a taxi 12,000 feet up in the Peruvian Andes, hurtling past llamas and alpacas and sheep, when I caug…

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Up in Smoke: Wildfires are upending our relationship with the great outdoors

Up in Smoke: Wildfires are upending our relationship with the great outdoors

As the pandemic raged in the summer of 2020, I racked my brain for ways to escape the city, if only briefly, …

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Whatever You Do, Don't Take Ski Lessons from Your Romantic Partner

Whatever You Do, Don't Take Ski Lessons from Your Romantic Partner

Only five minutes into my first ski lesson, I was ready to fire my instructor. "Don't cross your skis!" she c…

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Uncharted Territory: Mapping Indian Country

Uncharted Territory: Mapping Indian Country

Shane Henry hit the brakes. Nearly 10,000 feet up in New Mexico's Tusas Mountains, he'd been steering his fou…

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On the Road with Jack Kerouac

On the Road with Jack Kerouac

Ogallala, Nebraska, is nobody's idea of a cultural capital. It didn't make any 2019 must-visit lists. Anthony…

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Senegal's Beating Heart

Senegal's Beating Heart

On a steamy night in Senegal's capital, a 64-year-old bald singer and his band were several songs into their …

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Talking Travel Writing at AWP 2016

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Home» Travel Blog» Talking Travel Writing at AWP 2016 Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  03.19.16 | 12:30 PM ET I’ll be moderating a panel on travel writing—Does Travel Writing Have a Place in the Age of Instagram and Google Earth?—at the AWP conference in Los Angeles on Saturday, April 2. I’ll be joined by World Hum contributors Tom Swick and Pam Mandel, as well as travel writer and novelist Janis Cooke Newman. If you’ll be at the conference, stop in and say hi!
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2016 Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference

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Home» Travel Blog» 2016 Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference Travel Blog  •  Jim Benning  •  08.09.16 | 1:46 PM ET This year’s Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference—or as many justly call it, summer camp for travel writers—kicks off Thursday in Corte Madera, California. If you’ve ever wanted to study travel writing with a host of accomplished writers and editors, this is the time and place.
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Ciclovia, a Weekly Biking Event in Bogota, Colombia

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You could hear the sounds of cyclists everywhere: The whir of tires against pavement. The clanking of gears and chains. The measured breathing of countless Colombians working their way across this sprawling capital more than 8,600 feet up in the Andes Mountains. My breathing? Not so measured. I’d arrived in Bogotá a day earlier and was still acclimating to the thin air as I joined hundreds of others pedaling down El Dorado Avenue.
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