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I had to post this one after seeing it again. Six buddies got together and spontaneously headed to Mali-and ultimately The Sahara Desert- for one of the most unique events in the world.
The Festival au Desert 
Those 6 guys just happened to be, Chris Blackwell of Island Records; troubadour Jimmy Buffett; former MTV Chairman Tom Freston; Kino Bachellier, a West Indies doctor; […]

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Today’s video comes from Italy.  He’s Pino Daniele (March 19, 1955, Naples), an Italian pop-blues singer, songwriter and musician. A self-taught guitarist, he began his career as a musician playing for other successful singers of the 1970s.
His striking debut in the Italian music world was in 1977 with the album Terra mia, which proved to […]

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Where am I? What day is it?
Actually, I am quite sure of all-of-the-above. But we did stop traveling for 36 hours or so. After about 3900 miles, here we are near Clarksville, TN, very close to the Kentucky border. We’ll be taking a ride to Fort Campbell, which I hear is pretty vacant as most […]

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T-minus 78hrs. Let the dance begin. A finely choreographed routine of packing and preparing for 7 weeks on the road. Starting with the basics; establish a central gathering area and setting aside clothes we can wear that are NOT going on the trip, we’re underway.
Expectations are for an initial overload, but then the cutbacks, justifications and for-or-against […]

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Humanity; what a trip. 
Do you define yourself as ”Italian”, Irish”, Spanish”, or “German”? Have you ever thought about why you define your heritage or ethnicity the way you do? Because your parents did? Maybe its where your great-grandparents lived before immigrating to America. I’ll grant you that defining details such as language, recorded history and (ugh) physical […]

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I’ve wanted to touch on the subjects of ethnicity, nationality, heritage and race for awhile now so I should thank Nobel Prize winning DNA pioneer, James Watson, for the kick in the pants.
While no one would, could, or should, mistake me as a student of any scientific discipline (outside of figuring poker odds), I am still qualified enough to have my own opinion […]

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To prepare for my trip to Africa I corresponded with experienced travelers from couchsurfing for advice. While I surfed the web for information, I stumbled on pixelatedimage. This is the blog/gallery of humanitarian-photojournalist David duChemin. I sent him a “cold-call” email and he provided me with invaluable information. As an experienced traveler and incredible photographer he’s an inspiration for […]

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If you had a chance to check out “The Images” page of this site, thank you. 
I’ve had the greatest pleasure this year accessing not only legendary performers and a country’s birthday celebration, but also the deeply profound experience of visiting Cape Coast Castle.
To stand in the slave dungeons, to walk through the “door of no […]

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