Monthly Archives: January 2010
Fly Favorites: January 2010
Designer Tyler Thompson spruces up the boring-ass boarding pass. Black Expat interviews the always adroit American Black Chick in London Europe on life across the Cess Pool Pond. Very decent Time article on the historical relationship between Haiti and her … Continue reading
And Just Like That, Plans Change
On Monday, I announced that I’d be hitting a Grand Tour of Guatemala and Honduras next month, using frequent flier miles I’d accrued with Delta. On Tuesday, that entire scheme fell apart. See, what had happened was: Because Delta was … Continue reading
Two Weeks in Central America
Photo by youngrobv Because of a bureaucratic bottleneck involving my Brazilian work papers, I’m not heading down to Brasilia for another month. So I decided to use the 40,000 Delta SkyMiles I had stashed in my account for an excursion … Continue reading
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I’ve got 40,000 SkyMiles in my account…
…and I’m free the first week in February. Where should I go? (I’m limited to the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America).
From the AV Room: Egyptian Papyrus Art
Back when I was in Cairo a few months ago, I had taken a taxi into the Old City to catch a free performance of the Whirling Dervishes (in Turkey, which has higher-profile dervishes, they charge admission). As soon as … Continue reading
Fly Brother Podcast Premiere: Let’s Get Lifted
I told y’all it was coming. In the debut episode of the Fly Brother Podcast: Who Is Fly Brother? Behind the Haiti Earthquake Why Be Fly? Getting Your Walking Papers Playlist: 1. “Prelude”/”Let’s Get Lifted” – John Legend 2. “Mr. … Continue reading
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Help for Haiti
Just this week, I had begun the preliminary planning for two weeks of volunteering this summer at an environment-focused work camp run by the NEGES Foundation in Léogâne, Haiti. Just yesterday, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the country, its epicenter … Continue reading
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Global Juke Joint: Miami Sound Machines
Cruising around Miami for New Years in a rental car with no iPod dock meant much radio time. Thankfully, 93.9 (in spite of random and agonizing bursts of “I Gotta Feeling,” “Dancing Queen,” “Single Ladies,” and “I Will Survive”) took … Continue reading
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The Importance of Going Places for Yourself ~or~ Even The New York Times Occasionally Doesn’t Know What the Hell They’re Talking About
A few days ago, The New York Times published its list of the “31 Places to Go in 2010.” My former adopted country, Colombia, clocked in at number 26. Certainly, the country is worthy of inclusion on this list; the … Continue reading →