A new round of Perceptive Travel stories is live for your enjoyment. Sometimes that means tales from obscure places, sometimes it means well-known locations from a different angle.

In the latter category falls the Going-to-be-wonderful World of Disney, from Gillian Kendall. Sure it’s easy to take potshots at Disney, but when Gillian Kendall returns to the magical place of her youth on “Disney Gay Days,” will Goofy come out of the closet?

Kristin Ohlson’s story on Herby Ohio got picked up by the Atlantic Monthly, then was unceremoniously dropped later. We’ll take their leftovers when it’s something this odd: a 360-acre medicinal herb reserve in Ohio.

Tony Robinson-Smith, author of Back in Six Years, makes his debut with a story on making sense of a purification ceremony in a house in Bhutan.

I review an assortment of three world music CDs from South Africa, Jamaica, and a world mixture of Chennai by way of Israel.

Get in on our monthly contest and this time you could win a cool hat make from recycled Brazilian tarps. See the Perceptive Travel home page for details.

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