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• More Signs You’re Traveling Too Much
  Building on our post from last November, here’s another half-dozen signs you might be traveling too much or for too long. Your favorite cafe is located in an international airport. You just finished depressing a volunteer caller from the Red Cross for the sixth time this year who reluctantly agreed that you are not eligible to donate [...]
• Traveling Names for Westerners/Foreigners
  Independence Day is as good as time as any to think about what it means to be “foreign.”  The terms here are often concepts in that they originated with one meaning and have since evolved into broader terms such as any “tourist.”  Some, like the Japanese gaijin, encapsulate an entire concept and way of defining [...]
• Water-wells in Somalia
  Amazing kids here. Imagine living in camp with next to nothing. There no real government help and not enough international assistance to make much of a difference. School, when in session, happens under a tree. Toys are made from anything they can find. I see boys playing with an old steel hoop pushed by a [...]