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Category: Travel Dispatches

Beautiful Northern Italy – the Other Land of 1,000 Lakes.
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Beautiful Northern Italy – the Other Land of 1,000 Lakes.

June 9, 2020June 30, 2023

Far from the protest and riot – ridden streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota another land famous for its lakes beckoned…

Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book
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Buona Pasqua – Spending Another Holiday Like a Character in a Jane Austen Book

April 14, 2020June 30, 2023

Italy is where I have spent yet another major holiday, passing as I did Christmas and New Years in…

3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down
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3 Months in Italy and How Being a Digital Nomad Sometimes Requires Settling Down

March 31, 2020June 30, 2023

I don’t think anyone needs anymore details about COVID-19. I want to take this blog post to start talking…

Life Under Quarantine
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Life Under Quarantine

March 10, 2020June 30, 2023

Life under quarantine is an interesting new challenge for a world-traveler/digital nomad. It takes a moment to set in,…

Unfurl Your Sails and Go Undaunted into the Great Adventure
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Unfurl Your Sails and Go Undaunted into the Great Adventure

February 11, 2020June 30, 2023

At this point my trip through Morocco would have been about halfway completed if not for a chance encounter…

In Ghana, I Practiced a Bit of “Theological Tourism”
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In Ghana, I Practiced a Bit of “Theological Tourism”

February 4, 2020June 30, 2023

Ghana is a primarily christian nation. There are also muslims here, but I never saw any advertisements for mosque…

But Who Will Build the Roads?
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But Who Will Build the Roads?

January 28, 2020June 30, 2023

PICTURED: The streets above Labad, a neighborhood which literally means “the bad” and was given to it by colonial…

Afehyia Pa – Culture Shock and a Merry Ghanaian Christmas
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Afehyia Pa – Culture Shock and a Merry Ghanaian Christmas

January 14, 2020June 30, 2023

Some of the previous dispatches from Africa have included no small amount of economic, social, or political commentary, but…

By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible
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By Our Very Nature, Dignity and the Human Being are Indivisible

January 8, 2020June 30, 2023

I always say about life that opportunities come when things are happening, and things happen when you make ripples…

Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going
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Go to Where the Boot Tracks End… Then Keep Going

December 31, 2019June 30, 2023

There’s nothing quite so engaging as a good mystery. I was still in Swakopmund as I had become accustomed…

Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems
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Swakopmund is a Beach Town Paradise that’s Not Quite what it Seems

December 24, 2019June 30, 2023

Swakopmund is a little slice of Germany in The middle of the desert. Afrikaners and Germans mingle together among…

Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert
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Macro and Micro – the Special Beauty of the Namib Desert

December 17, 2019June 30, 2023

I would love to take a mature and nuanced perspective about my first week in Namibia, but to be…

Adventuring in the Qian Shan Mountains
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Adventuring in the Qian Shan Mountains

February 26, 2019June 30, 2023

An older, distant China is, as I mentioned earlier, quite hard to find here in the Northeast. But this…

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