Monthly Archives: June 2011
“What’s Past is Prologue”
Oh, Woody, ye of a thousand neuroses. You’ve gone and hit mine right on the nose: that romantic yearning to experience a particular place during a particular time that’s not my own. I’ve almost always felt a disconnect between the … Continue reading
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Packing a Lot of Crap into Two Small Bags: A Photographic Essay
Back in 2009, I took a three-month round-the-world trip to a planned five continents, and with the help of Fly Mother and some Zip-Lock bags, I was able to squeeze an adequate amount of clean underwear and other necessities into … Continue reading
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The Greatest Freakshow on Earth
New York might have the “Naked” Cowboy and Tokyo might have outlandish Harajuku street fashion, but São Paulo’s where you’ll see 40 skateboard punks commandeer a city street and a truly-naked homeless man walking down the street swinging low amidst … Continue reading
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The Non-Conformist Traveler
Would you dare dream of visiting every country in the world? Would you dare try? One of my biggest inspirations when it comes to international travel is Chris Guillebeau, a young entrepreneur who has made it his personal ambition to … Continue reading
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Gaining Entrée into Paradise*
Does this move you? What about this? Of any place on Earth, Brazil probably comes closest to delivering on the hype – for vacationers, at least – and I’ve lived moments here that were pretty damn similar to those evoked in … Continue reading
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São Paulo in Pictures: The Street Where I Live, Part 1
Avenida São João – aka Saint Johns Ave, baby – in the ‘new’ half of ‘old’ downtown São Paulo. For a few decades, The Ave was the place to see and be seen, with the sidewalk cafés, movie houses, bijou … Continue reading
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Global Juke Joint: Your International Starter Album
When it comes to music that transports you out of the banality of your office cubicle, there’s no one like nuyorican house DJ “Little” Louie Vega, one-half of 90s music production team Masters at Work – not Lou Bega of … Continue reading
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Getting Your Walking Papers
As of January 2011, only 37% of all American citizens possess that little blue book with the eagle on the cover. That’s a whole lotta people not getting fly! By age thirty, everyone should have a government-issued passport. If you … Continue reading
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Oh, the Places We’ll Go!
Still basking in the afterglow of last weekend’s World Domination Summit, I’ve decided to make some major changes to the site, re-committing myself to providing interesting, impactful content about international travel in vivid Technicolor. Ok, so enough esoteric blathering. Some … Continue reading
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On World Domination and Possibility
I’m not going to bore you, dear readers, with personal anecdotes from the World Domination Summit that you wouldn’t have the slightest interest in reading. All I can really say is that I’ve never been surrounded by so much greatness … Continue reading
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