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Eastbound and Down
I had felt myself racing through Europe. The rush of the western world had seeped into my travel and hilariously, defined my escape from it. The world around me slowed down when I hit Slovenia, and I started to slow myself down as well. I stopped taking buses everywhere and started to hitchhike, finding the…
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Italia and Wildness
Landing in Civitavecchia was a feeling of relief. Not only had we reached land, but we were in fact in Italy, a place I had heard so much about, and the first gate back into a semblance of the wild worlds to the east. I love the feeling of marinas and ports, and the feeling…
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Morocco, And The Western World
I hoped not to take another extended hiatus. In fact, I promised I wouldn’t at the end of my last post, but sometimes travel gets the better of you, and things like blog posts seem so much less important than the continuous motion of it all. But I’m back – didn’t you miss me? I…
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Snap back to reality: Balkans pt.1
Ope, there goes a month. I left off in Istanbul, crossing the border into the adventures of Eastern Europe. I was very excited for this change. The Balkans are a region of the world I have had interest in for a long time, and on the edge of that exploration I had a growing excitement…
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East Meets West: Istanbul
There are few cities with as much mystique surrounding them as Istanbul. For generations this broken isthmus split by the Bosphorus has been a cultural capital, as important to the crusades as it was to the silk road. As the only city in the world that stretches over two continents, it is a swirling blend…
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Turkey Part two
I left off in Gaziantep First it should be noted that in retrospect I am feeling very strongly that stopping there was one of the most important parts of this trip. It helped me to have a vision of where a large part of my family comes from, and the environment that they lived in…
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Turkey: Part one
It was hard to leave the Black Sea. After so long in the high mountain plateaus I was enjoying being by the water again. So much so that I considered for a moment just skirting the southern edge of the Black Sea until I got to Istanbul, a route that would have taken much less…
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Georgia and the Black Sea
It was funny how much leaving Armenia felt like leaving home. Between the family there, and the routines I built for myself, I found it harder than expected to leave. This is a funny thing to me, to have a home so far from everything I have ever known, and to know it intimately in…
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Reconnections and Releases
Here’s some sap for ya I’ve been realizing how surreal reconnections are. It doesn’t have to be your own experience. It does not even have to be one you are a part of. It could be walking past the reconnection of two strangers on the sidewalk. But to witness these moments, to be a part…
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Chapter Number Next: Holidays in Yerevan
Hello and happy holidays! Wishing you all the best and maybe some snow! The holiday season is fascinating here in Yerevan. Armenia is very proudly the oldest Christian nation on earth, and thus, as one can imagine, it is a spectacle to see the Christmas exhilaration in the air here. The capital city is bustling…
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