With generous splashes of popular culture and human interest, the <i>NPR Road Trips</i> series introduces you not only to far-off locations and unusual destinations, but to the people who inhabit them—and seek them out. Each story focuses on real locations, real people, and real history in the thought-provoking, imaginative and entertaining you’ve come to expect from NPR. <br><br>Includes <br>• “Adventurers Cross the Globe by Foot and Hand ” <br>• “1970s Nostalgia Thrives in Katmandu”<br>• “Robot Jockeys Give Camel Racing a Modern Twist” <br>• “Listener Sends ‘Postcard’ from Rio’s Carnival” <br>• “A Walk Through Beijing’s Vanishing Hutongs” <br>And more.