No, Not Far

Does it matter how long it takes? Sometimes deeper is better than further. Award winning Travel Writer Troy Nahumko's personal blog

Friday, December 17, 2010

Two Places, 2 Different Worlds

National Geographic's photography contest 2010

Two places...same world...only just

Pakistan and...

Saskatchewan

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Troy: Adrift for many years, washed up on the steppe of Spain, far from the coast and just far enough away from anywhere. Before setting up camp in the small flaking white house I had traveled through 5 continents and lived on 3 of them. First crossing the Americas and Europe countless times as an itinerant musician and using my downtime for in-depth explorations of the time-machine that is northern Florida. From there to Madrid's tapas bars and the medina in Fez. Later I perfected my Khat chewing technique in the Yemeni capital Sana'a during the first years of the most recent Gulf War. Next stop was the shores of the oily Caspian, teaching within the evil empires of BP and Halliburton, admiring the west's hypocrisy close up in their democratic outpost in Baku. After a stop in Iran long enough to realize that it isn't everything they tell you, I opted for the smiles that grace you on the streets of Vientiane, Laos and the sheer pleasure of a cold Beerlao on the banks of the Mekong. A brief stop in Tripoli and now drive west of Madrid, through the dehesas of holm oak trees just far enough to think you are in Portugal and you will find the house.

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Sydney Morning Herald
The Toronto Star
Brave New Traveler
Verge Travel Magazine
The Straits Times (Singapore)
Traveler's Notebook
Brisbane Times
Go Nomad
Qantara.de (German)
El Pais (English)
The Irish World
Trazzler
International Business Times
HOY (Spanish)
Khaleej Times, Dubai
DW-World/Qantara
Romar Travel
Teaching Village
Go World Travel
BootsnAll
Stuff.co.nz
ESL Daily
The Inland Magazine

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► 2012 (1)
- ► February (1)
  - Popping up in Salon

► 2011 (13)
- ► November (1)
  - Trazzler following Ibn Battutah through Spain
- ► October (1)
  - An Apple for the Teacher
- ► May (5)
- ► April (2)
  - CAREFUL! You just might...trip?
  - Easter Redux
- ► March (3)
- ► February (1)
  - III Premio de Periodismo Ciudad de Cáceres Fundaci...

▼ 2010 (27)
- ▼ December (1)
  - Two Places, 2 Different Worlds
- ► October (1)
  - Battuta's Least Known Journey
- ► September (3)
- ► August (2)
  - Granada...in English and German
  - Trazzler Writing Contest
- ► July (3)
- ► June (2)
  - La Barrosa
  - The Curse of Too Much
- ► May (2)
  - A late May Afternoon
  - 2 looks at Spring in Extremadura
- ► April (4)
- ► March (5)
- ► February (2)
  - Caceres and Extremadura in 360º
  - Caceres with an Irish Lilt
- ► January (2)
  - One Person's White is Another's Black
  - Biblical Taxis

► 2009 (74)
- ► December (2)
  - Goytisolo on Istanbul
  - Even More Medieval Caceres
- ► October (3)
- ► September (1)
  - Lunch in Monsanto
- ► August (1)
  - When the Temps are Above 35
- ► July (3)
  - Brave New Travel World
  - Odd Choice Don't You Think?
- ► June (16)
- ► May (9)
- ► April (5)
- ► March (3)
- ► February (11)
- ► January (20)

► 2008 (3)
- ► December (1)
- ► September (1)
- ► June (1)

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