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Not Home From Here
By Sarah Jost They’re here These last days at sea For four months I’ve been rocked and swayed pitched and rolled From India to Africa in a vessel better suited to smaller seas Eleven winter days on the Pacific spat … Continue reading
Posted in Sarah, Travel
Tagged home, national poetry month, poem, poetry, the sea, the world
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My Trip As a Kid to the Philippines, Part Three
By Geo Ong [I'd read this in order if I were you. Part one and part two.] After the first week in the Philippines, spent entirely in Manila, it was time for us to fly north to Tuguerarao City, my … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Travel
Tagged antique, boracay, cagayan, home, luzon, manila, my trip as a kid to the philippines, philippines, poverty, rural, third world, tuguegarao, tuguegarao city
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A Long Walk
By Geo Ong That chronic travel bug inside me has awakened from its dormant slumber and as of late re-emerged to make itself known again. Shockingly, if you exclude my move to New York and my brief week-long return to … Continue reading
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Tagged brooklyn, Chinatown, home, lower east side, lower manhattan, manhattan, new york, new york city, two bridges, walking
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Out East and Back West
By Geo Ong I am not sure that it is possible for anyone brought up in the East to appreciate entirely what New York, the idea of New York, means to those of us who came out of the West … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature, Travel
Tagged california, east, essay, goodbye to all that, home, joan didion, los angeles, moving, new york, new york city, redondo beach, slouching towards bethlehem, west
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