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othing tastes quite as sweet as a frozen daiquiri
during the midday heat at New Orleans Jazz
Fest. Between the parades and music spread
across a whole bunch of stages, it can be easy
to forget that there’s a whole other side to the weekend –
great NOLA food and drink to keep you dancing throughout
the day. “Do I need to see your ID?” one of the bartenders
asks me, as she’s pouring a drink. I flick up my sunglasses.
“You’re good,” she says and laughs, taking in the creases
around my eyes. I still give her a tip.
If you’re into fun and newly formed friendships, there’s
nowhere like the American South. On a two-week road trip
a couple of years ago, we met historians in Birmingham,
Iraq vets in Mobile Bay, set designers in Nashville and
bartenders – lots of bartenders – just about everywhere.
We stayed in old-school motels, rocked out at music festivals
and ate a lot of barbecue. It was the perfect trip, and if real
life hadn’t been calling, we still may have been there. (Such
is my devotion to the South, I visited a collector of Elvis
memorabilia in South Australia on my return. The photo
is of me sitting in his replica of the King’s gold Cadillac.)
Memories came flooding back as I wrote the feature, ‘The
Call of the South’. As they did when I was reading David
McGonigal’s ‘Natural Selection’ about his visit to Kenya’s
Maasai Mara. We talk about Australia having big skies, but
the Mara’s endless blue more than rivals it. Spending time
in East Africa is a privilege and it’s a place you could return
to time and again. I’m not sure you’d ever become blasé
about seeing a leopard tearing apart its kill high in a tree
or watching a rhinoceros and her calf grazing on the plains.
In this issue, we’ve got more creatures in Canada’s
wilderness, as well as stories about Oaxaca, Salvador and
travelling through the foothills of Nepal. Big city or remote
wilderness? Whatever you’re preference, if you’re anything
like us, you’re constantly planning your next adventure.Editor’s lEttEr
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