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Posts Tagged ‘travel’

Never. Stop. Learning.

I’m currently in the Atlanta airport, en route to Puerto Rico. This is the third annual trip I’ve made to the island, to attend La Fiesta de Santiago Apostol in the town of Loiza, and to learn more about the traditional percussion rhythms of Bomba and Plena.

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My List

As I mentioned in the Fearless . . . Ruthless post, “I have a list of life goals that I say I’m going to accomplish . . . a neverending bucket list of places to see, percussion instruments to study, educational materials to produce, languages to be

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Free Shirt and the $2 Banana

While catching up over drinks recently in San Francisco, a friend and I got into a conversation on the topic of “generosity.” He is convinced that, these days, people everywhere are simply out-for-themselves, difficult to approach and untrustworthy. This is his primary reasoning for staying close to

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Ghana: Day One

Wednesday, October 8, 2003: I haven’t been in Accra for two hours yet and I’m already so overwhelmed by everything I’ve experienced, I don’t think I can remember enough to recollect it all here in words. The plane touched down at Kotoka International Airport at 8:05pm Ghana

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Witness to the sacred

Halfway through this Thailand trip, and just thinking how much I absolutely love to travel! And how much some people don’t. It’s very difficult to understand how there are some who truly fear the same experiences that have brought about some of my life’s greatest adventures, foods, friends, music

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Pack it up, pack it in . . . in under 8 lbs.!

Today I head out on another Thailand adventure! This one is going to be a jam-packed two weeks. . . traveling with Lucinda Vette; visiting the Tycoon Percussion factory in Bangkok; studying traditional instruments again with Inchai Srisuwan (at the Thai Faith and Music Foundation); hanging and

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Fly for free! Travel Hacking tip #1

. . . or, at least, more cheaply. This concept is not a new one to some travelers. But I am continually meeting others that have never thought to try it. It’s a well known fact that airlines regularly overbook flights. Their reasoning is that many passengers,

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You on the WRONG bus, gringo!

“No . . . NO, no, no . . .” That was about the extent of my Spanish when I saw the ten-inch kitchen knife appear. It’s 10:30 on a Tuesday morning. I’m en route to the San Juan airport after yet another amazing trip to Puerto Rico.

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But you’re a drummer . . .

Life hacking; lifestyle design; geoarbitrage; digital nomad. Hot, hot terms out in the entrepreneurial blogging world right now. And man, do I hate them . . . maybe because I’m not a real fan of the whole ‘being labeled’ thing. But what musician is, right? However, it’s

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Surf anywhere- for free!

If you know me, you’ve probably heard me raving about this super cool organization called CouchSurfing. CouchSurfing is, in a nutshell, a humongous network (almost 1.7 million strong- check out their stats page) of people offering others a place to stay when traveling. That “place to stay”

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