Mengestu brilliantly summons up the tribe Maeve Brennan once called travelers in residence men and women suspended between continents; suspended, too, between memory and forgetting.

American writers Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn were also called fellow travelers.

There is also a debate over the traditional itinerants, once known as tinkers and now called travelers, who have lived a nomadic life for centuries.

McCarthy made a distinction between "card-carrying communists" and what he called "fellow travelers."

The shortage has been a boon to a growing corps of nomad nurses, called travelers.

What you will find is items written not just by tourists, but also by residents, whom Ms. Jenkins calls "travelers in their own towns."

Shannon said he realized the hotel was a market leader in attracting conferences and meetings, but was lacking in what he calls the "transient family travelers."

They have even addressed what President Mary Robinson and other top officials call Irish racism: the widespread bias against the tens of thousands of Irish families once called tinkers, now euphemistically called travelers.

I believe you realize that was partly because of what we had detected from Sol: our hope, which was fulfilled, that we could call travelers from there to us.

Calling all adventurers and independent travelers!