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717 Bill Bryson At Home; Pico Iyer In Search of Paradise; Walkable Cities

Travel with Rick Steves

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The Half-Known Life

Pico: I remember those dogs barking in the night in the back streets of Bali and a very spooky sound of the Gamelands as you say. The people who are performing these beautiful dances are in a trance that sometimes simulating the great legendary battle of black magic and white there. As soon as I got back home I put the mask on the wall and it was so powerful I had to take it down and put it away and never look at it again. It just reminded me that there's more going on in these cultures than the typical visitor can read and and it's really magnetic and packs a powerful That's important for us to remember as people in search of paradise that

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