Giving Notice

August 12, 2010
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…I was filled with a startling hope. That when it came time to clean out my mental garage, when it came time to discard all of the thoughts and worries and fears associated with my current position, I would notice the details of the life around me that had gone ignored and unseen for so long…

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Trackpacking: Radiohead

August 9, 2010
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…Without fail, Radiohead’s music is emotionally affecting, and it’s this aspect that makes it such an excellent travel companion. Traveling and music share an emotional core, and the best of both puncture our leathery shells and resuscitate our emotional selves…

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Is Your Vision Getting Blurry?

August 6, 2010
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…vision is a temperamental and tenuous thing, like a dandelion gone to seed buffeted by spring winds. It is vulnerable to the slightest setback (i.e., head full of bodywash) and barest breath of doubt from the lizard brain. Without vision, we are off the map in no-man’s land. Our goals recede into nothingness and we unerringly return to the routine, trodden path…

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The Crossroads of Travel and Materialism

August 3, 2010
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…How was I to reconcile Todd’s insight that we seek unburdening transactions, which I interpret as travel here, and The New Inquiry’s assertion that traveling is collecting, the willful burdening of materialized experience by chronicling? Pass the aspirin please…

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Bloody Good Travel Writing from July 2010

July 30, 2010
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…I read what must be hundreds of travel blog posts each month, and I’m continually impressed, inspired, and confounded by the ronin talent drifting around the internet. For as much traveling as these folks do, it’s incredible they find the time to write – much less produce – thought-provoking and informative pieces…

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