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Sitting here at my desk in Fresno, CA, I’m staying still for a moment and taking a deep breath. It’s been quite the ride since touching down in Miami on December 16. After two days in Miami I spent four days at Sigma Nu Fraternity Headquarters in Lexington, Virginia, my former place of employment. After …
Bocas del Toro I flew from from Lima to Panama City, Panama, landing at about 17:30, and walked around for about a half-hour with a sign reading “Share a Taxi to Albrook, / Compartir un Taxi a Albrook.” I didn’t find someone to share a taxi but did find a shared van into the city, …
...continued from Rounding the Corner, December 14. La Paz and el Camino de la Muerte With the census day in Bolivia I’d had to plan things pretty tight to do both the salt flats and Death Road. That meant taking the overnight bus from Uyuni back to La Paz, scheduled to arrive at 06:30 “or …
Trusted reader, you’ve followed my journey this far. And now you ask, what is in store for Chris Healy from this point forward? I’m leaving Chile today. Whoops, I started writing this post six weeks ago. I’ll be in Mendoza, Argentina for one week. It’s a city just on the eastern edge of the Andes, …
Flying from Mendoza to Buenos Aires involved a four-hour delay at an airport with no VIP lounge, relegating me into the nameless rabble of novice travelers. Combined with the check-in staff trying to insist on checking my backpack I was feeling a bit crabby, but I brightened up a bit after meeting a fellow Fresno …
Now eight months into this journey, I’ve started doing a good deal of reflection: what has happened so far, where I’ve been and what it’s meant to me - and will mean to me in the future; what I’ve learned and how it’s changed me. I remember meeting people in Auckland, telling them I’m three …
Having decided to stay in India, I spent a few of the days following Triund kicking around in Dharamsala and deciding where I would go from there. I’d checked into the same guest house as Sunny, Baba, Raj and the rest of the guys and was enjoying being there. Since I had some more time …
Back at the Bombay Palace, I had been considering Imran’s package deal since the day before, but I finally decided to save the cheese and and give it a go on my own. To that end, San jib booked me a bus ride to Agra and back the following day to visit the Taj Mahal …
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Incredible India had been lurking in my mind as probably the most intimidating country I will visit this year. I’d heard so much about it, mostly that it can only be described as chaos. I’d heard that India is a roller-coaster of experiences; on the one hand that it’s dirty and dusty, there is extreme …
I’ve got a fun story to tell to start out this post, but that requires a little context. I have two passports. The first is my original, ten-year validity, US government issued passport. The second is what’s called a duplicate passport. You can apply for such a document under particular circumstances accompanied by a written …
