[Note: the following is an excerpt from an unedited (except for typo fixes) email  from my friend Brian Dennison.

I've known Brian since middle school. We both grew up in Marietta, Georgia and later lived together in Athens when we were students at UGA. We listened to and talked about a lot of music.

Brian is the only one of my friends who, as the saying goes, "got religion." He was also the first one of us to get married and have kids. At present time he's in Uganda doing missionary work.

Every day my job is writing, editing, and publishing about place and travel, about the experience of place. That’s how I define “travel writing” anyway.

Sometimes I find the most transparent and relevant writing about place and experience is in people’s emails, which is why I wanted to publish this here.
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