Thursday, May 24, 2012
Zurich
I'm finally in Nairobi! The journey went smoothly and I made it to Kenya without any trouble (AND, my luggage made it this time!). I was lucky enough to spend a whirlwind 24 hours in Switzerland on my way here, and wanted to share a few pictures from my mini-European vacation.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Msambweni Sunshine
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Go to Saigon, go to Kenya
“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about; I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water. And so there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people—Americans and Europeans—come back and go, ohhhhh. And the light bulb goes on.”
-Henry Rollins
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