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Oye Como Va-Mallorca-TLC-Tastes Like Chicken

Kentuckey Fried Movie When it comes to venturing out of your CZ , Comfort Zone cuisine, Did you ever notice everything tastes like chicken? That common declaration used when trying to describe the flavor of a food I've never tasted will now be applied to visiting new places. Despite the language differences and the geographical distances, everywhere I am visiting lately looks like Hawaii, or MDR, Marina Del Rey, Or Venice,California. Strange...I am going back to places I have never been before..WTF?

Tunisia-Northern Exposure

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Image handling fix: direct live Blogger image URLs only; no archive links. Tunis, Tunisia · Afro-Mediterranean Field Note Foreign Land Tunisia Northern Exposure A day without plans becomes a field lesson in rain, ritual, bargaining, boundary-setting, and the strange economics of an eight-euro Coke. See Full Image Continue South Tunis Medina Souq 2009 Cultural Crossroads Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir A bit of “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto” came over me as I touched foot on the northernmost part of African soil: Tunis, Tunisia. The itinerary was simple because there was no itinerary. Heavy rain and flash floods were on tap—good for the semi-arid landscape and bad for my big plans to convert to Islam. ...

Tunisia-Northern Exposure

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Image handling fix: direct live Blogger image URLs only; no archive links. Tunis, Tunisia · Afro-Mediterranean Field Note Foreign Land Tunisia Northern Exposure A day without plans becomes a field lesson in rain, ritual, bargaining, boundary-setting, and the strange economics of an eight-euro Coke. See Full Image Continue South Tunis Medina Souq 2009 Cultural Crossroads Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir A bit of “We’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto” came over me as I touched foot on the northernmost part of African soil: Tunis, Tunisia. The itinerary was simple because there was no itinerary. Heavy rain and flash floods were on tap—good for the semi-arid landscape and bad for my big plans to convert to Islam. ...

Yaba-Daba-Do- Malta 2009 is a Twinkie

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Malta · Maritime Field Note · 2009–2011 Foreign Land Ed Reif’s Journey Through Malta From foreign-flagged ships to Valletta’s streets: a meditation on maritime scale, urban contradiction, and a life worth watching. See Full Image Malta Blue Ocean Cruising Valletta Ship Registry Foreign Land Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I used to think travelling and working on ships was bad. Then I stopped thinking. In 2009, I reached a threshold. I compiled a video of all the blue-ocean cruising I had done—as if my life ...