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Montezuma’s Revenge
Warning: This story contains graphic details. It began right on schedule, the audible gurgling from my stomach which could only mean that, once again, the king of the Aztecs had come to exact his toll at my invading his country. Without fail, I have experienced traveler’s diarrhea within a week of all of my visits to Mexico.…
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Mexico City – Trash and Transit
All the travelers I’ve met here had a different impression of what to expect in Mexico City. Some expected dusty streets with wagons and horses, others expected crime ridden boroughs where you were likely to get robbed by most any one you saw on the street. Mexico city, or CdM (Ciudad de Mexico) by locals,…
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Italy, Rome, and Home
The only thing I didn’t enjoy about Corsica was that it was like being in Hawaii by myself. Due to its romantic nature, the island was mostly populated by couples, and since there weren’t any hostels, I was pretty much alone the whole time. I did meet lots of the couples though since I became…
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Corsica!
France made a wise decision in acquiring Corsica, a place that posesses beauty to compete with anything I’ve ever seen. It has jagged peaks to match the rockies, carved red stone to match the deserts of Utah, and beaches as beautiful as anything I’ve seen in the Carribean. Scatter about that landscape castles, fortresses, and…
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The French Riviera/Cote d’Azure
The French riviera, while not the most beautiful of all the places I’ve visited, has a cornucopia of attributes to justify it being one of the best places to live in the world. Its agreeable climate, miles of gorgeous coastline, snow capped coastal range, deep canyons, and pastoral countryside concentrated in such a small geographic…
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The French
The other day on the train I caught myself looking with confusion at their faces, their fingers, their legs and it actually surprised me how similar they looked to me despite how alien their words and culture seemed to be. To paraphrase Bill Bryson, “Germans are flumoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of…
