Tag: Exploration
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Desert Discoveries
I wasn’t supposed to be out here in the desert. The plan was to take a simple 1-hour flight from Algiers to Tunis, with the worst of the bumps coming from some light mid-air turbulence. To grant my visa, Algeria required both arrival and departure flights to be booked in advance, but I hated this…
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Algerian News Report on my Travels
Here’s a 10 minute report by El Bilad TV on my journey to Algeria to train jiu jitsu. A journalist thought my writing project carried merit and spent a day with us shooting the above. It’s in Arabic, but the gist is that any chance for human connection is a beautiful thing, and we should…
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Algerian Air
We buzzed through streets, splitting lanes and taking shortcuts. It was 7:00 p.m. and the Algerian air was still hot. Exhaust fumes billowed black smoke into our faces as we tore past buses and old Renault beaters. I held the camera in one hand and clutched the back of the motorbike with the other. I…
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A Heavy Ride
*Note: The main character in this story speaks limited English, and I speak nearly no Arabic. As such, I’ve adjusted the dialogue to refrain from using fragmented language or tawdry colloquialisms. I’m unsure of what to do with this experience, so I thought I’d write about it. Presently, I’m sitting in an aging bus terminal…