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Finding The Travel Molecule

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Travel can alter perceptions and may even rewire your brain. Novelty and unique one-of-a-kind experiences raise dopamine levels, the chemical in your head that gives you optimism, curiosity and creativity. This gift of pure attention is harder to achieve when your brain is ON French Fries--the default American mode, when your "chi" or energy is Velcro for negative experiences, but Teflon for positive ones. State It Then Create It  Before you can take your path you must live it in thought. My thought makes me travel and create archives of experience and expectation where I incinerate negativity and have a mindfulness of pure attention, without advice, without judgments-When I'm traveling, I am what I am right there and like some Starfleet Commander- I endorse Captain Kirk's recommended policy of non-interference with the internal development of alien civilizations. I must say, some of these places I visit, at least on the surface, look a bit like Mars....

Eastern Province-Dessert

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The Empire Strikes Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Mr Ed Arabian Stallion One Lump Or Two Intense/In Tents frankly Scarlett, I don't give a lamb

Eastern Province-Dessert

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The Empire Strikes Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Mr Ed Arabian Stallion One Lump Or Two Intense/In Tents frankly Scarlett, I don't give a lamb

4 days at sea in the Indian Ocean, then Mauritius

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The  beaches of Mauritius-Africa Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. Tourists    generally, don't see a country as it is, they   see them as theirs is.This requires expending tremendous amounts of energy to have so called   “normal” experiences   on vacations; where taking a safari is actually seeing all the caged stuffed animals in the zoo. Travelers have occurrences, while abroad. They cannot be created,   they    undergo them.   They are somatic and     visceral and in-your-face. Too bad my videos don’t include SMELL-avision. The stench to my olfactory is awesome! without imitation, without precedent.   For these occurrences     to become an adventure,    however, it is necessary to recount them later at a cocktail party or blogging about them. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of   Starbucks coffee? When I travel these unusual places of poverty and despair,   I   must...

4 days at sea in the Indian Ocean, then Mauritius

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The  beaches of Mauritius-Africa Write? Right! Blogging is literature in a hurry. Tourists    generally, don't see a country as it is, they   see them as theirs is.This requires expending tremendous amounts of energy to have so called   “normal” experiences   on vacations; where taking a safari is actually seeing all the caged stuffed animals in the zoo. Travelers have occurrences, while abroad. They cannot be created,   they    undergo them.   They are somatic and     visceral and in-your-face. Too bad my videos don’t include SMELL-avision. The stench to my olfactory is awesome! without imitation, without precedent.   For these occurrences     to become an adventure,    however, it is necessary to recount them later at a cocktail party or blogging about them. Should I kill myself, or have a cup of   Starbucks coffee? When I travel these unusual places of poverty and despair,   ...

Bahrain-Hump Day@Camellot

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Bahrain: Kingdom of Camel Beauty & Island Adventures πŸͺ 🏝️ 🏁 🌊 🐫 Bahrain Kingdom of Camel Beauty & Island Adventures "Hump Day Every Day" Island Discovery Small Island, Big Adventures Bahrain, officially the Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island country situated near the western shores of the Persian Gulf. We got there by car, from Al Khobar, over the King Faud Causeway; a series of bridges and causeways connecting Saudi Arabia with the island. It has that Key West-Island-Hopping-Feel to it, but not quite as spectacular as 7 mile causeway that links Florida with The Keys. ...

Saudi Arabia-NoMad People Here

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KSA: The Majik Kingdom - Desert Dreams & Backup Plans πŸͺ πŸ•Œ 🌡 ✈️ 🏜️ KSA: The Majik Kingdom Desert Dreams & Backup Plans "The Desert Is Clean" The Reality Check From Caribbean Dreams to Desert Plans A year ago today I was riding a horse in the Caribbean living my dream, now I'm in Saudi Arabia living my backup plan - Cha Ching! Sometimes life takes you from your dream destination to your backup plan, but the desert has its own magic. The transition from tropical paradise to sandy kingdom teaches us that adventure comes in many forms. ...

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