Traveler's Omertà: On the Secrets We Might Should Keep
January 28, 2010
SG in Continuity of Parks, Guidebook, Mammoth & Mono

Mining the Fagaras Range, Transylvanian Alps, Romania. Photo by mountain guide Iulian Cozma.YOU BEAT YOUR WAY to the next great "undiscovered" village, the ultimate "secret" beach. You write about the wonder of it. Maybe you give it away for a fraction of a cent per hit. Maybe you get two bucks a word. But in your wake the wonder is gone.

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