Category: travel
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A Street in a Strange World
Originally posted to my research site in August 2012, from the beginning of a research trip in Indonesia. Apparently, I took hardly any photos during this Jakarta stopover, and so my revelatory first time eating tempeh is featured. Jakarta, August 2012. My first visit to Jakarta, completed. It was not as bad as I’d expected,…
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Not in my country: From across the Pacific. With timeless words from Freya Stark. And some links.
Travel, if done thoughtfully, makes us feel more like citizens of the world rather than being defined by the perimeter of one country’s borders. Borders are irrelevant to my concern for the well-being of humanity. But the serious threats now facing progress, rights, and equality in my adopted country, the United States of America, have…
Tara Sayuri Whitty 