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LETTER HOME: LITERARY SNAPSHOTS FROM GOA
Dear Family and Friends, My head is a mishmash of thoughts and experiences and half-baked ideas. So rather than a cohesive narrative of a specific experience that happened during my week, I offer up a series of snapshots into where my body and my mind meandered over the past seven days.
Read more →PHOTO ESSAY: AN INDIAN HOTEL ROOM
I have had a long time fascination with hotel rooms. There is something comforting, yet transitory about these temporary spaces. I’ve experienced the gamut of options, ranging from boutique bliss in New York City to bedbug infested terror in Buenos Aires to the diverse options here in India.
Read more →GALLERY: OCTOBER IN INDIA
A selection of imagines from my month helping at a yoga retreat in Goa, and all the delicious sights and adventures of India.
Read more →VIDEO RECAP: WEEK 42
How does one summarize a week in India? Well here’s an attempt to bring you there through seven quick videos. See my work project. Listen to a radio interview. Watch a praying mantas meet its demise. Just an average week in Goa!
Read more →LETTER HOME: A MOTORBIKE AND A LIST OF DREAMS
Dear Family and Friends, I am a man of many dreams. But you probably already knew that about me. One of my favorite things to do is to pull out my well-loved moleskin notebook and make lists of these dreams.
Read more →10 THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT VOLUNTEER TRAVEL
The options for volunteer travel have inflated exponentially over the past few years. If you tap “Volunteer Nepal” into your search engine, you’ll have pages of options of organizations that are willing to help you have a meaningful volunteer experience, for a price. Sometimes paying to volunteer is a worthy investment, but there are still plenty [...]
Read more →HOW TO MAKE CHAI (QUICK & EASY VERSION)
No beverage is more synonymous with the distinct flavors of India as Chai Tea or “Masala Chai.” It’s readily available and intoxicatingly delicious. The ten cent cups of chai I purchased on the train from Mumbai to Goa far were superior to any knock-off recipe done by a Western coffee chain (it who shall not be named).
Read more →VIDEO RECAP: WEEK 41
This week was filled with work. Check out some of the projects, and meet some of the guys!
Read more →LETTER HOME: ALL THE YOGA I NEED
Dear Family and Friends, It’s been one week doing a work-exchange in Goa, and utensils are all but a distant memory. But don’t assume that utensils have not yet been invented in India. In the kitchen, there is a big tray of lonely forks and spoons waiting to shovel of delicious dhal mounds into my [...]
Read more →TRAVELER PROFILE: KOJI FROM JAPAN
After a year of exchanging emails, I finally met Koji, my ‘cyber-friend’ and reader of The Conversationalist, in Tel Aviv. He’s been living and working in the Palestinian town of Tubas. But I’ll let him tell you all about that, as well as some of his travel tips and dreams.
Read more →PHOTO ESSAY: AN INDIAN TRAIN RIDE
Hi. My name is Daniel. And these are some photos that I took when I went on a train from Mumbai to Goa. I’m not a wealthy man, but I did treat myself to a comfy sleeper berth to make the 14-hour journey a bit more leisurely.
Read more →VIDEO RECAP: WEEK 40
Here are the highlights from my last few days in Israel, lunch in Jordan and my arrival to India!
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