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In Transit
Frankly, I've been to lots of 'poor countries' and while each situation demands a level of complexity that I can't give, how Egypt is doesn't excuse it's crappiness from my book because of it's poverty (see Asia).
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Uh. Latvia and Uh.
6 or 7 Nubian men were dancing around a crackling radio. Another felucca moored next to ours, and a woman peeped her head out and darted back inside the cabin when she saw me and the other passengers on our boat. She was naked. A couple of Nubian men walked on the boat and then strolled back off.
Twentysomething
I've lost count
If I hear another "Hey Japan!" shouted at me I'm going to knock someone out. It's ok when a couple of people do it, but when kids on the streets start yelling "Hey Japan! Korea?" at me, and keep on shouting it at me when I say, "No, Vietnam" or "No, America" I'm really going to go crazy.
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Noob-Land
The earthen homes squatted together like bubblewrap popping off the desert.. the rounded domes reminds me of Luke's farm in Star Wars (they're round to reflect the intense sunlight).
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Travel Rocks
From Ink, my uber cool friend (click to see full image). See, I make fun of myself, too. Link.
Twentysomething
Eighties I Hate Thee
It's not that I care what you all do, it's just that I have to be subjected to walking retards dressed in oversized parkas and too short pants and well, where have all the girls gone?
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Cry Hole
Beyond the touts who pester you every three minutes for taxi rides and hotels and 'hey, you want papyrus shop? maybe later?' and camel rides and packaged tours — we got screwed by a tourist police officer! I'll repeat it. As tourists, we got screwed by tourist officers.
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al-Ahram
And to the observer? The pyramids are grand. Put in the right context – historical, mathematical, cultural, architectural, geographical – and they become incredible pieces of human ingenuity.
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Points of Incredulity
Two points: The current book that I picked up from a hotel lobby in Cairo is written by a 15 year old boy. 15 years! I have loved fantasy books since I was a dork in elementary school, and Eragon certainly has the markings of a good (if not somewhat
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The Price of Things
Or maybe we think interestingness comes from the interests themselves. I may not be into photography that much, but if I keep up with the photography blogs and social networks and e-mags, it can seem like that I really am into photography.
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Rose Valley T(r)ale
But then, we talked, out of bored neccessity. It trickled, then flowed, then swelled. "America?" Edan asked. "How many women are there in American? I hear there are many." Then moments later, "No tell me, forget the Mexicans and others, how many Americans?"
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Cry-O City
Beneath the balcony, the orchestral sounds of honks, beeps, screeches, skids, taps, groans, cries, whistles... knocks and rumbles and mumbles and songs – short and long, bursts of colors and smells – swelled. Same instruments, but a different tune than New York.