Tag: #backpacker
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In this article I cite some examples of mistaken fellow travelers, touring southern Italy. In August 2020 with what I renamed the lady of the woods we went on a road trip. Why we got this nice nickname I tell in this article. We had also brought along our marbles and bucket, but I didn’t…
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There are four more videos from Canada in this article, specifically two of the forest fire in the Rocky Mountains. This article was made at home, and was not posted live like the others from June 2025. Links to these are at the bottom of the page. Videos of Canada, the first excursion to Victoria…
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A trip to southern Italy is always a good idea, and I plan to savor everything I can. I say savor because in my opinion, it is the absolute best eating area in the world. Cannoli, cassate and pasticciotti are fantastic southern desserts. But the last two, also idioms in Italian that can mean trouble…
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I don’t often talk about food, but I think it would be nice to write an article about eating strange sandwiches. I did this in Florida as I recreated with artificial intelligence in the featured photo. This was the last of the reports I wrote via email I made on my solo trip to the…
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In general, it is easier to make interesting encounters by traveling independently; this is also true when traveling in Africa. So too, unlike group travel, it is easier to relate to the locals. This is good, but it can also be bad. As, without serious consequences, was the blatant cab scam as soon as I…
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The question of what a travel blog is for I have asked myself several times particularly during 2025, and specifically in Laos and Serbia. Having future destinations many months in advance in my head, returning from one trip I would often buy a printed guidebook for the next one and perhaps read it on the…
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It’s not like in Tanzania or going on safari, but still you see animals in Senegal. Live and dead, they are almost all free. Animal citizens in Senegal In the daily routine of many Senegalese is the sharing of space with pets. They live together with people and are almost never tethered or fenced in.…
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My interesting acquaintances while traveling often included other travelers. Sometimes even people living in the place I visited and even immigrants. Meeting expats in Miami was the most interesting thing about my days there. I had also gone there to visit my friend Tania, who introduced me to both her mom and sister and their…
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This is a verbatim account of some of the funniest evenings that have happened to me while traveling, in some cases they are also big travel oddities. Like the time I found myself dancing on tables in a Scottish dance hall, or when I lost a dinner, bet with a Korean girl watching a soccer…
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Me and Senegalese taxi drivers, even without cars a really original public transportation In my independent touring in Africa, I have had to deal with original public transportation. I have vividly in my mind the moment of leaving Saint Luis in the rain. Yes, because even in Africa it sometimes rains. I was lucky to…