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Mexican food is comfort food

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When living overseas, people miss different things from home. For me it’s definitely Mexican food.

Quote: To get to know a country…

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  To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It’s futile to gaze at the world through a car window. – Albert Einstein   Looks like good stew ingredients – the soup souq?   Photos of lusciously arranged market wares are almost cheating, blog-wise.  I mean the layouts are …

Quote: To get away from one’s working environment…

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  To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. ~ Charles Horton Cooley   Watching the sunset from atop a dune in the Moroccan Sahara.   My friend, Rachid, took this photo when we were …

Quote: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…

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  Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~ Mark Twain Flowerbed constellation in India.   I am posting this …

Quote: …too much good whiskey is barely enough.

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  Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. ~ Mark Twain   Jameson whiskey — size HUGE! — outside The Old Distillery.   This was just going to be a quote and a photo that I conveniently had in the wings, but I couldn't resist giving a tiny …

Quote: travel is more than the seeing of sights…

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  Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.   ~ Miriam Beard   Photo by me.  Do you recognize the location? (Click to enlarge.)  

Quote: Laughter is the sun…

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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. ~ Anonymous   Photo courtesy of vatobob via Wikimedia Commons.  

Quote: …All life is an experiment.

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  "Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson     Photo by Evelyn Simak via Wikimedia Commons.    

Quote: …to live, not to exist

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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. ~ Jack London  

Quote: …I first became aware of the outside world

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Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.  ~ Eudora Welty  

Quote: Laugh at yourself…

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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. ~ Alan Alda  

decisive action

Quote: Nothing will ever be attempted…

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Nothing will ever be attempted,
if all possible objections must first be overcome.

~ Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English Author

Quote: …travel is more than the seeing of sights

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~ Miriam Beard

Quote: Laughter is the language of the Gods.

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Laughter is the language of the Gods. ~ Buddhist saying

Quote: When someone does something good, applaud!

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When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy. ~ Samuel Goldwyn    

Quote: …you travel for the unknown

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You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. ~ Ella Maillart    

Quote: If you follow your bliss…

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"If you follow your bliss, you will always have your bliss, money or not. If you follow money, you may lose it, and you will have nothing." ~ Joseph Campbell  

Quote: As you think, you travel…

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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. ~ James Lane Allen    

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