February 2012
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Social Media Gnostic: What To Do In Abu Dhabi... →
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The Etihad flight is going to take me from New Delhi to Casablanca, but before it does, I am going to spend 18 hours in Abu Dhabi. Here is what you can do in Abu Dhabi while you wait for your long long layover to end.
For an inspiring exploration of culture, art, architecture and faith:…
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Inoculations Can Mean Only One Thing: India and...
Tucking medicine into a white bag, and walking to the taxi from the travel clinic with all the proper prophylactics in hand reminds me of our preparations for first day of school.
It’s a lot like carting away boxes of pencils, and bright shining pen and eraser bags, the dreams of the days to come stowed away in their crinkling plastic wrappings. Thoughts of the new things to be discovered...
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I've Had to Create a System of Wants and...
There’s wanting to do something.
Then there’s planning to do something.
When it comes to my travels, I have had to develop a new habit. I actually sit down with screen open, atlas open, and blank pieces of paper.
I have to balance work / benefit / travel / needs / costs / relationships and what I call Plausibilities.
What is the Plausibility that I can do something?
A Triangle...
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Abundance Is Something Small: Being the Pilgrim at...
The paradox of abundance is that when we think of something we want, we can become convinced we lack it all. When we notice even the smallest thing in our possession, everything within our grasp seems enough, and it all seems possible.
It’s like being in the airplane, convinced that we wish the ride to be over. That it would be so great to finally be eight hours in, descending, looking at...
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Follow Me On Gogobot To Help Me Win a Role In...
Followers of this Tumblr know that I love to travel.
Gogobot is in the final stages of choosing one of five finalists to do an adventurous global tour for a travel documentary they are putting together.
I am one of the finalists.
Please follow me on Gogobot to improve my chances of communicating all of my awesome experiences to as many people as possible. I believe in the gogobot mission,...
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The Russian Mob and Cockroaches in Phnom Penh
This was long enough ago that I don’t remember if it was raining when we landed in Phnom Penh, or if it was just really humid.
The Mekong River rolled by the National Highway, and it was near dusk. the copper light of the water almost matched the dirty match smell of the air, and the hazy gray yellow of — it wasn’t smog — it was wood smoke. The fields were burning...
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Your Luggage’s Journey Through The Airport |... →
Finally, an airline commercial that actually is interesting.
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“Luna: I just realize that your name is pronounced like “deux...”
– My friend in Casablanca realizes that my name in English sounds like something else in French.
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When An Airline Becomes a Person: AA 066 JFK to...
I fly quite a bit.
50,000 miles in the past one and a half months. Lots of terminals and staring at departure and arrival screens.
And I have a quirk.
I hate turbulence. It frightens me. It makes me uneasy. It is one of the reasons I cannot sleep on planes. The logical centers of my brain tell me that the plane cannot fall out of the air because of turbulence. Physics tell us that the...
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