Although I’ve ranted before about the boldfaced lie of “blissfully traveling the world” I just can’t help myself so here I go again. When it suits their fancy governments seem to know everything there is to know about you (big brother). On the other hand when it comes to issuing a visa, authenticating a marriage, […]
Category Archives: Humanity
Life Abroad Nightmares – embassy red tape
Lies Someone Told You: “He’s an expert”
What do Herman Melville and Warren Buffet have in common?For one thing they accurately described a plague of false competency.What do I mean? And what is there to learn from it?Let’s start closer to the beginning.
Lies Someone Told You: “Travel the world”
To a fair extent I can say I’ve “travelled the world” And I can also tell you that if someone is saying to you “I can teach you how to get rich, travel the world, and live the life” he/she is trying to sell you something, and you better beware.
The Link – the making of a master theory
Links. Fifty or so years ago Thomas Kuhn penned Theory of Scientific Revolutions And we learned that we tend to think in-box. The Link (cross discipline thinking) is the antidote. Links. The fabric of our world wide Web. They have an ancient history…
Travel is the antidote
https://snarkynomad.com/the-best-of-mark-twains-travel-quotes/ Travel is the antidote to ignorance. Mark Twain wrote Innocents Abroad and also wrote the book about his travel to Hawaii and the west (roughin it – was the name?) Travel will teach you how similar people are by first showing you that they are different and then breaking down those differences.