Travels

I don’t care about. It’s not that important to me but I’m happy to read that it’s not garbage.

https://discourse.bbad.com/t/travels/92/247?u=thinkingaboutit
what is garbage to one is very tasty to another;)

Hare Krishnas dancing in the center of Medellín.

nice, shame there is no sound to go with that picture

But there will be Reg’s leg soon as he leaves his legacy there.

I was surfing Amazon for carry on bags and wondered to myself, “how secure are those TSA locks?” I almost wish I hadn’t googled.

This is academic post-COVID-19 but still mildly interesting.

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No, it’s the hue of lifelessness and the feeling of being shut out from it. Like viewing the world from inside a cigar humidor. Never any fire to life and over when there finally is.

Everywhere you have traveled in life. Every place and everything you experienced in those moments there you did as nothing more than dead weight.

Throughout your entire life every achievement, failure, hardship, or difficulty you were simply carried through as dead weight more than anything.

Your condition places so much burden and hardship on others you can’t even acknowledge it in the slightest.

The life you felt it is the life of others you cast your failed body upon.

Don’t get crazy Mark. Don’t

You make me feel as if I have no life or reason to live. As if my weight is being carried by you and you are struggling for the very breath I seem to take for granted.

Why are you trying to make me feel this way?

I don’t like crazy talk.

Let’s stop it then. Let’s beat depression.

Does anyone need to travel just to control these levels?

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

So just going out and about my normal business this month I have found myself being the potential victim of 1 potential robbery and 1 more potential robbery/pick pocket so far. I’m much more watchful nowadays and quicker to recognize the approaches.
At these times it’s good to have your fitness and health as well as your wits. I expect something like this now for any reason setting foot out the door.

Carrying two wallets separating identification, medical, and credit cards from cash and other less important cards is a good idea.

Waiting on my neck wallet. If the suspected pick pocket is just stupidly walking around you or just too closely you can try squatting down or sitting. Often this makes it just too obvious a move. Sometimes it means no move.

And if you have to ask “do you need something?” then you have to be fully ready and willing to take immediate physical action in response to a threat or invasion of space. Words are just a distraction and excuse if they don’t make sense and are throwing you off focus.

And watch anyone just hanging out by a washroom. You might want to go in just to wash your hands or look in the mirror first and turn around and walk out.