Something new: I’ve just started a weekly gig over at Vagablogging. Here’s a link to my post from last week about the magic of fort cities. This week it’s about the intersection of art and place.
Tonight during a World Series commercial break, I ran into the following passage which gives an interesting take on the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Intersections'
Vagablogging + Books on Boats
November 5th, 2009 No Comments
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Anybody homesick for travel?
October 30th, 2009 No Comments
I’m getting homesick for travel, for places to shine despite their normality. Buying groceries in a May Berlin drizzle, knowing the next few days will also be cold and wet. Homesick for the apartment we went in and out of in the rain, and how that added to its value.
Maybe it’s something (or lack thereof) [...]
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Travel Self vs. Home Self
October 22nd, 2009 3 Comments
Do you play by different rules at home and on the road? When surrounded by the familiar versus overwhelmed by the new?
It’s a massive challenge to merge the travel self and the home self. To approach the world with open intensity no matter what part of the planet happens to be underfoot.
Do any of the [...]
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Can Work and Travel Coexist? A Lesson from Funk.
October 10th, 2009 No Comments
When it comes to work and travel, the groove sets up the payoff.
Consider Funk. A bass lick is all the more nasty when the bass has been hanging in the pocket, keeping a low profile. When after seven or maybe 15 bars of solid groove, it pops.
Drops all constraints, steps forward, goes deeper, and realizes [...]
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The Effects of Two Months in South America
October 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Adam the Traveler has just posted reflections from his first two months in South America, along with some solid photos. Here are a few:
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Does Travel Lead to Service?
October 7th, 2009 No Comments
Nick Kristof released the winners of the “Half the Sky” competition last Friday, selected from over 700 submissions of positive work going on around the world, right now. He writes,
“…one of the things that struck me was how often the intercultural engagement involved Westerners who were as much beneficiaries of the process as the local [...]
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Anybody Seen a Boxcar of Hobos?
October 4th, 2009 2 Comments
While walking by this slow freight train the other day, I wondered what would happen if a boxcar of hobos passed and yelled, “Jump on!” Really animated hobos–flapping the sleeves of their flannel shirts, waving their bindles and whatnot.
What will happen when you get the chance to plug a stick of dynamite up the posterior [...]
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Can Foreigners Buy Guns? Three Lessons…
September 23rd, 2009 2 Comments
Dripping the obligatory Calcutta sweat, I bounded up a couple steps and through the door. Might be some cheap stuff in here. Stopped and scanned the three walls of dark brown rifles standing straight and serious like courtroom wood paneling.
Whipped off my sunglasses and looked the shopkeeper in the eye: “Can foreigners buy guns?” “No.” [...]
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The Hazards of Prolonged International Exposure
September 11th, 2009 1 Comment
The right mix of cigarette smoke and cologne puts me on a sidewalk in Granada. A grey-blue overcast sunrise through a crack in the blinds is another Utica snowstorm. The smell of rare wood burning (a piano, let’s say) is the rush of India.
The more places we visit, the more elsewheres we can be transported [...]
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What Do Travel And Storms Have In Common?
August 26th, 2009 No Comments
Travel and storms are both the changing of a place. You sense a distant rumbling that something’s brewing. An oncoming pressure drop. When the wind gets in your hair, you know it’s on.
It hits and jars your senses. There’s adrenaline, fear, and giddyness in some proportion, cut with the awe of something immediate and massive. [...]
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