Wide Eyes, Wider World

Thoughts, narratives, essays, and poems on Going Places.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"--Marcel Proust
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Thursday, January 17, 2013

The importance of Expat Thanksgiving

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I'll admit that even by lax Andalucian standards (with the strange exception of the bus schedule, I've found the southe...

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Monday, September 12, 2011

Lucky/Stupid

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Well, hello there. Fancy meeting you here. It's been awhile, and the time stamp on the last entry here is solid proof. I stuck in o...

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Monday, November 23, 2009

Mother Tongue

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I'm sitting in a small cafe/bar in a little town in Normandy, and evening is falling fast outside. The clank of the boats moored across ...

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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Keeping pace

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I may be only 22, but I think I'm getting an idea of what it is to age. A month ago I wrote here about hitting the 2/3 mark in my one-ye...

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Saturday, June 6, 2009

Food for thought

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Here in Manali, in the north of Himachal Pradesh state, India, I have been taking a few days off to enjoy the mountain views and ready mysel...

Friday, May 22, 2009

The Wonder of Wellington

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Following my "breather" in Nelson, I hopped a bus-and-ferry combo across the choppy but stunning channel separating New Zealand...

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