Aging on the Run: Travel Blog
In October 2023, my spouse and I retired and sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
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Minneapolis to Medellen: The Power of Memories Amidst the ongoing Violence
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, an ICE agent gunned down a woman in her car. Activists videotaped the incident so the whole world could see how the US President lied to cover up the murder by his...
Beauties and Beasts: A Month in the United States, 2025.
After two years of global travel, we now know how beautiful the world is. As bicycle travelers, we knew the land we call the United States is as stunning as the rest. We forgot just how...
To the Accra Palace: An unexpected trip to Transnational London.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is a universal rich with all that is particular. Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism While it's obviously true that aristocratic privilege and...
Italy: We the People in a Time of Monsters
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.― Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1935. When governments betray the most basic human values, it...
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In October 2023, my spouse and I sold our house in Minneapolis, MN. USA. Since then, we have been traveling the world. I write a blog about each place, with a historian’s eye and an internationalist lens, wondering how memory can liberate the present.
Minneapolis to Medellen: The Power of Memories Amidst the ongoing Violence
In Minneapolis, Minnesota, an ICE agent gunned down a woman in her car. Activists videotaped the incident so the whole world could see how the US President lied to cover up the murder by his...
Beauties and Beasts: A Month in the United States, 2025.
After two years of global travel, we now know how beautiful the world is. As bicycle travelers, we knew the land we call the United States is as stunning as the rest. We forgot just how...
To the Accra Palace: An unexpected trip to Transnational London.
I have a different idea of a universal. It is a universal rich with all that is particular. Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism While it's obviously true that aristocratic privilege and...
Italy: We the People in a Time of Monsters
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.― Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, 1935. When governments betray the most basic human values, it...