Join us as we embark on new adventures, not as solitary wanderers, but as a vibrant community of explorers united by our shared love for discovery and storytelling. In this anthology, each page invites you to join travelers from the Wayfaring Writers' community as we recount our escapades and soul-stirring encounters in Oaxaca, Mexico. Our stories span the spectrum of human experience, bound together by the thread of curiosity that binds us all.

But this anthology is more than just a collection of travel tales. Oaxaca, A Wayfaring Writers' Anthology, is an embodiment of the Wayfaring Writers' spirit-a tapestry woven from the voices of diverse storytellers, each contributing their unique perspective to create a mosaic of shared experiences. Whether you're an armchair traveler or a globetrotter at heart, these pages will ignite your wanderlust and inspire you to embark on your own extraordinary journey.

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There are those moments when the doors inside me don't work the way I want them to, and sometimes they let the wrong things in, despite my best efforts.

-Chris Homan

I continued to wander, all the while enjoying the cacophony and the bustle-the streets and people of Oaxaca providing bright, confetti-like magic to the ordinary days.

-Linda Burshia-Battle

Four blocks later, I'm not even lost in thought when it hits me. A wall of cardamom. One moment there is nothing; the next, a scent so overwhelming that, though invisible, takes up every available space. It is as if every molecule of oxygen also has a molecule of cardamom attached to it.

-Carmella Bauman