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Are you connected to the tourism/travel/hospitality industries or travel media in any way? If so, please specify how (kindly include any relevant company names/Web sites!).: blogger, author

On which destinations & travel topics can you advise members especially well?: SE Asia, Latin America, Europe

What destinations are you most interested in learning about?: East Africa, Central Asia

Other travel / language expertise?: Thai, Spanish

Earl Hardie Karges's Blog

Semana Santa in a Remote Mexican Fishing Village

(part 2 of 2, for more pictures see here)

First you have to realize that Puerto Lobos is not your typical Mexican coastal beach town, with palapas and cabanas, mar y sol,…

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Posted on April 10, 2013 at 4:12pm

Psst! Hombre! Wat Jou Looking For: Mujeres, Marijuana, Colonoscopia?

I stop. “Wha’dya’ got? Is it good?”

“Is it good? Hell, yes, it’s good. D’you think I’m gonna’ get you some Mexican carnicero to snake the drain that’s gotta’ process all those hamburguesas, man? It’s the real thing, hombre…

“Cuanto…

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Posted on April 3, 2013 at 10:22am

Sixto Rodriguez: A Tale of Three Continents… and the #MassMarketing of #BigBox #America

Primero, Segundo, Tercero, Cuarto, Quinto, and… and… Sixto, ahhhh… And the sixth time was a charm (not that the first five weren’t), and Sixto Diaz (Jesus) Rodriguez came into this world on July 10, 1942, the sixth son of Mexican immigrants working in war-time Detroit, more than three years…

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Posted on February 22, 2013 at 11:00am

Mali’s Jihad Number 4, and Counting: The Day the Music Stopped

See video Voices United for Mali - 'Mali-ko'

It’s horrible, of course, the war currently going on in Mali, the desecration of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu, and the disruption of lives in a place where life doesn’t allow much margin for error. …

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Posted on January 25, 2013 at 10:19am — 2 Comments

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