Continuing her series of profiles of rural Slovaks, Whitney Medved speaks with Helena Majerová, who lived through World War II and the Communist invasion.

Jonathan Gourlay smells sweet as he sits half naked at the center of a feast house on the island of Pohnpei.

Jonathan Gourlay begins to lose himself at a sakau market on Pohnpei, but is saved by a slap.

Locke McKenzie likes to hitchhike, but for reasons you might not expect.

Jonathan Gourlay engages in deep, penetrating discussion at a sakau bar.

Chas Carey has to get out of North Korea with a handful of photos he took illegally.

Emily Guerin confronts Chile’s obsession with bread, and watches it get ugly when there’s a bread shortage on Christmas Day.

Chas Carey takes a tour bus to North Korea, where the government has made every effort to hide the country’s poverty.

Jonathan Gourlay tries to count in Pohnpeian but never gets past “one.”

Stephen Morgan tries “couchsurfing” in Slovenia.

To experience the “real” Chile, Emily Guerin checks out dating scene.

Jonathan Gourlay takes Continental Micronesia from Honolulu to Pohnpei in Micronesia.