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Silk Road Nomads

 

Meet the Steward family. We dig their moxie! This California quartet left it all behind to journey indefinitely along the Silk Road of High Asia.

 

Now based in Istanbul, they are fast racking up a tome of adventures that would put Indiana Jones to shame, all the while living a pretty extraordinary life.

 

We caught up with Stan for a chat.

 

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Sarah Baxter, responsible traveller

 

Lonely Planet community member Sarah Baxter hopes to encourage greater dialogue on the importance of being more aware when travelling.

 

To achieve this, she started writing her own travel blog, The Exotic Durian, which examines the good and bad impacts of travelling in Indonesia... [Read More]