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After breakfast and some reading on the roof, I’m heading out to meet up with new friends. This will be my first adventure into the heart of Medellin, sans phone. Easy breezy!
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Life in Medellin: Day Three
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As I prepare for my move to South America, digging through piles and piles of old things for purging, I’m thrown deep into nostalgia. So I thought I’d share a post from my old travel blog about my first major solo trip (and how it transformed me.) Taxis, tro-tros and buses in Ghana Friday, September [...]
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Winter Wonderland
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I grew up in the snow. Froze my fingers and toes in the snow. But living in Cali for the last 16 years, I’ve forgotten what it’s really like to LIVE in the snow. And there’s nothing like seeing what you already know through the eyes of someone who has never seen it! This a [...]
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All My Food: Colombia
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Yummmm! Need I say more? And I didn’t get sick. Always a win, win. I tried lot’s of new fruits, way too many empanadas and of course the bandeja paisa, a traditional plate with enough carbs for a week. Although coffee is grown here, most of the good stuff is exported and what remains is [...]
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Why I Travel
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I am an artist, designer and world traveler. How they all intertwine makes sense to me intuitively, but Jonah Lehrer in “Imagine: How Creativity Works” says it so well. (Eventhough this book was recalled by the publisher for journalistic fraud, I agree with his thinking on travel.) “When you escape from the place you spend [...]
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Sunny Seattle! Oxymoron?
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Lucky me. . .the three days I’ve been in Seattle there has been no sign of the notorious 300 annual days of singing in the rain. Nothing but cool crisp skies, puffy happy clouds and beautiful autumn leaves. I couldn’t have chosen a better time to start my West Coast tour. Yes. . .sometimes it’s [...]
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From Here to the Moon
Does kayaking in Oakland, California a mile from where I live, count as “afar”? I think so. Saturday’s rise of the “supermoon” was mesmerizing to watch from this vantage point, particularly in a kayak where it seems you are hovering on the water’s surface. In contrast, Oakland’s estuary sits next to one of the busiest [...]
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60 seconds
How much can you tell about a travel experience in 60 seconds? Well let’s see. I’m trying out the “magic movie” function for my FLIP video camera. When it comes to posting, it’s the movies that always get neglected. And since after late is never, I’m gonna try this random blind editing technique to release [...]
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Blink, It’s gone
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Seoul, Korea What’s the least amount of time you’ve spent in a new city? How about six hours on a nine hour layover? That’s pretty fast. How did I do it? I took (gasp) another tour. Korean airlines routinely has layovers of nine hours, so why not have tour companies develop a whirlwind worry free [...]
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All My Food: Nepal
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Doesn’t look like a lot of food, huh? Well that would be true. Six of my 15 days in Nepal were sick days. The remainder of the time I ate broth and crackers and eventually fried rice. But before the body disasters began, this food sure was good!