The Only Mzungus At Market Day
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: Hawkers selling garlic, fresh ginger root, vividly colored fabrics, flip flops manufactured from recycled tires, and second-hand clothing lined the muddy...
View ArticleResonance and Revisiting Past Travels
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: ? For this latest dispatch, I’ve decided to revisit some travel posts from years past, in addition to sharing a few essays I’ve read while on our current...
View ArticleTravel: Escape, Growth, and Everything in Between
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: In a region of Central Nicaragua, the sultry air of Muy Muy town put us into a sweaty daze. Rebecca and I took turns swinging on an indoor hammock and sipping...
View ArticleThe Pull of Community and Routine
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: We were warmly welcomed to multiple supras with Natia’s family in Western Georgia–experiences like these help make up for missing our communities and family...
View ArticleTwo Tanzanian Safaris and Five Observations
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: Rebecca and I both feel extremely fortunate to have spent six weeks in Tanzania, and we decided that we’d be foolish to pass up observing some of the world’s...
View ArticleThe Grape Harvest and the Waterfall
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: Bakvha welcoming a neighbor, a bull, and more grapes. Strung between two pear trees, the shaded rope hammock beckoned me. My legs were cramping–the feeling...
View ArticleThe Mystery and Allure of Vietnam
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: Walking in Hanoi always puts us on high alert as we’re pedestrians in a city characterized by its crazy flow of two-wheelers. The motorbikes honk incessantly....
View ArticleSnapshots of Humanity
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: ? The writer in me has always appreciated hearing other people’s stories. When I drove for Lyft a few summers ago, I picked up one passenger after his shift at...
View ArticleOn Fixed and Fluid Worldviews: Were You Hoping to Catch a Bullet?
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: With Omani paratrooper instructor Abdul in Al Hamra, Oman “I heard you got back from traveling,” a local man in New Hampshire said the other day, before...
View ArticleTaking Some Days Off
Originally posted on Roads and Revisions: In a recent essay for The New York Times titled “A Day Off From the World,” Jennifer Finney Boylan opens with a passage that must mirror how millions of...
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