Category: encounters
Part of travel is the direct experience of being present, walking streets, hiking hills, tasting food, hearing conversations, seeing the quality of light, seeing the quality of life…being present …
Music is a deep part of life and history in Ireland.. It makes sense then that a well known symbol of the country is a musical instrument: the harp. …
Kerry Dexter
November 17, 2020
encounters, Africa travel, Asia travel, green travel, History, Kerry projects, Middle East travel, South American travel, Travel, travel stories
Paul Salopek began his current journey in Ethiopia. At this writing, travel changes and border closings find him paused in Myanmar. It has taken him seven years to get …
Acorn Street. You may have seen its cobblestones or red brick walls as backdrop to an advertisement or a fashion shoot. Do you know the backstory of this street …
Exploring through music: whether your plans include a microtrip nearby, a walk in the neighborhood, or staying safe at home, that’s a good way to travel. take a trip. …
Black history: have you sought this out in your travels, come across it stories in passing, or passed it by unknowingly? History is about story, after all. Individual story. …
Kerry Dexter
March 23, 2020
food & drink, Asia travel, City or urban travel, encounters, Europe travel, Kerry projects, photography, Travel, travel books, travel stories, US travel
Exploring a community, a neighborhood, a whole region, even a country through the tastes of its food brings extra dimension to how you experience and come to know a …
When you hear the crack of a baseball bat at spring training, cheer on the children in your life in their games, or enjoy a baseball game at any …
Every year, there are all sorts of Christmas trees across the city of Boston: large ones, small ones, ones glimpsed through windows of homes, store window creations, ones for …
Late October brings thoughts of changing colors, falling leaves, crisp apples, pumpkins, ghosts, and cemeteries. I’ve never found cemeteries to be especially spooky. Famous ones such as Père Lachaise …
The dinosaur is on a road trip. He — diplodocus carnegii, that is — lived in was is now the US state of Wyoming somewhere between 161 to 145 …
Travel. It’s one of the things that unites us. So does connection to homeland. So does music. These are all things which play into the music and the ideas …
