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June 14, 2006
Over the years I've taken a lot
of shit from people about never
having traveled outside the
United States.
My god, how narrowminded,
ignorant and lazy, eh?
Don't I understand the broadening,
educational effect of getting wasted
at a party on a beach in Goa?
There are a lot of reasons
why I placed foreign travel
low on my prioritiies.
One is that early on I developed
an active fear of what stuck me
as the primitive state of the And that was before someone I knew
rule of law in many other countries. was thrown in a Mexican jail, having
signed a confession at gun point.
Then there's also the general disgust
I had at the idea of being a typical
tourist... how could I possibly
understand a culture on the other
side of the world in the space of a
few weeks?
What point would there be to travel
to another place if I wasn't planning
on really being a part of that place?
Is the idea just to
to go there and gawk?
Thanks, but maybe I'll just
look at some pictures, and
read about the place.
Left to my own devices,
my travels have tended to
be explorations of different
places in the United States, Boston
places that I might consider Chicago
actually living. San Francisco
Los Angeles Discovering
that I definitely
Which is still another point: I don't want to
am apparently an American loyalist. be in Los Angeles
I think of myself as an American was well worth
Citizen, and I really can't see the trip.
myself as an expatriate-- looking
at the game from the outside.
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