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Stop Fetishizing Locals 7/7/2020
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This is not a rant.
I come not to complain, but to liberate you.
It's not difficult to find travel writers who fetishize locals. Travel like a local! Get the inside scoop from locals! Go where t...
The Bourdain Paradox 6/30/2020
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Bourdain didn't repeat himself.
Not like Bob Barker. Pleasantly matter-of-fact, the host of The Price Is Right would hold up that long microphone and remind us to spay and neuter our pets at the...
Cliché Interview Question 6/23/2020
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Then came the bullshit part.
"Tell me the most interesting thing that's ever happened to you."
I needed the job, so I didn't roll my eyes—but I'm pretty sure the recruiter did. He had informed us...
Corsican Ordeal (II) 6/16/2020
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Still wrong about dodging.
Multiple sorties of F-bombs were launched and replenished.
This is Part 2. Part 1 is here.
Outside, a dozen kids between the ages of fifteen and eighteen returned ev...
Corsican Ordeal (I) 6/16/2020
Reading time: 2 minutes
Not one shoulder bump.
We formed a loose circle in the middle of the bar. No one jostled us as they laughed with their friends or called out to the waitress. We drank in silence, unmolested.
This...
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