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Nomadism

Vagabonding vs Bonding: On Staying in Touch

March 31, 2016May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

Reunited in Cape Town: Hiking Table Mountain Is it hard to form deep, enduring friendships when you’re always moving around? I get that question a […]

Africa

Playing Tourist—Because, Penguins

March 22, 2016May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

More tourist-ing on the way to the Garden Route. Sometimes, it’s fun to play tourist in your own town—or, you know, any town.Funny, coming from […]

Africa, Culture

Cape Town Snapshots

March 10, 2016May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Street art near Assembly, Cape Town. Are these snapshots I share so often an exercise in lassitude or creativity? I’ll admit I write them when […]

Africa

One Reason I Am in Love with Cape Town

February 23, 2016May 22, 2020 Toby 1 min read

South Africa—Cape Town included—is a complicated place.  It is complex, fraught with tension and not particularly safe. It is fascinating, for this half-anthropologist, half-writer (and […]

Europe

Helsinki Snapshots

January 13, 2016May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

Monday, 11 January 2016 It is 2:30 pm, and the sky already seems to be getting dark as I make my way to the Helsinki […]

Adventure, Nomadism

I Want to Do All of the Things

October 5, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

This is not a bucket list. I wrote this list a few weeks ago as the realization dawned on me that, without exaggeration, I want […]

Europe

Being versus Seeing

September 4, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

So, what are you doing here? They say it kindly—with honest curiosity—and they say it in Italian, but that is the question. The woman at […]

Culture, Europe, Food

Snapshot: Bar Willy

August 27, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

8:30a.m., Trastevere, Roma — 24 August 2015I begin the day with that most Italian of concoctions… il bar.Bar Willy sits at one corner of a […]

Africa

I Might Really Miss This Place

August 7, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

A rainbow came out especially for my “picture-taking day.” As I prepare to leave Zanzibar (Nungwi, more specifically; East Africa, more broadly), the place that […]

Africa

The Joker

July 27, 2015May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Photo: Wikimedia Commons His eyebrows are raised at the center in a perpetual arc of surprise. A cap typical of observant Muslim men in Zanzibar […]

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