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Lessons Relearned: Rediscovery Continues

Lessons Relearned: Rediscovery Continues

Sometimes it’s good to relearn things about yourself, important things but things perhaps forgotten with time and routine. My seven days in Panama, even beginning before leaving Colombia, have been largely a relearning experience for me. The main thing I’ve relearned is how focused, persistent, and resilient I can be in reaching an objective. In this case, it was the focus, persistence, and resilience in finding destinations in a country that suffers from a serious allergy to signs. On several…

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Wherever You Go, There You Are: My Voyage of Rediscovery Continues

Wherever You Go, There You Are: My Voyage of Rediscovery Continues

If you haven’t already, read the first installment in this ongoing journal. It will bring you up to speed on what this is about. It has been a full week today (Saturday) since I left home on what I’m calling my voyage of rediscovery, and six full days that I’ve been in Colombia, the first country on my planned 10-country Odyssey. The first few days I was in Cartagena, and now I’m in Santa Marta, easterly along the country’s Caribbean…

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My Voyage of Rediscovery Has Begun

My Voyage of Rediscovery Has Begun

I am writing this post from Cartagena, Colombia, where I am now nearing the end of my second full day, third day overall, of my voyage of rediscovery. This is the first stop on a trip that will take me to 10 countries, passing through another seven along the way. Phileas Fogg, in the Jules Verne novel, went around the world in 80 days. I anticipate doing it in 76, though I don’t have any big wager waiting for me…

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