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In honor of Valentine’s Day, top 10 travel and expat posts on finding love abroad

9 Comments Posted by on February 10, 2012

My mother used to disapprove of Valentine’s Day. Although she would indulge our need to cut out elaborate paper valentines and bake heart cookies, she always made sure my sisters and I knew what she thought — that it was a fabricated consumer holiday for boosting sales during the winter doldrums. Despite her remonstrations, I [...]

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Lyn Fuchs, American expat in Mexico: A raider of the lost art of philosophizing

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 31, 2012

As January comes to its close, our theme of Spiritual Enlightenment Through Travel would not be complete without a reference to Lyn Fuchs, author of Sacred Ground and Holy Water, and publisher of Sacred Ground Travel Magazine. Lyn, of course, was our 5th Nomad of Christmas, where he stated his Most Displaced Christmas Moment was: [...]

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Channeling business guru Peter Senge for lessons on spiritual travel

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 30, 2012

The Displaced Nation has dedicated most of its January posts to the kind of heart-opening, life-changing pilgrimages that enlighten and renew the spirit. We’ve gathered tips from expat and travel experts on where to go and steps to take. We’ve spoken with a former expat in India and a woman who dreams of making acupuncture [...]

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My quasi-religious pilgrimage to Oxford University — will I be judged sufficiently pious?

Leave a Comment Posted by on January 27, 2012

In past columns, Charlotte Day has illuminated aspects of her life as a Third Culture Kid who was born in Sydney, Australia, grew up mostly in New York and is now studying at an English boarding school in Kent. Today she describes her quest to earn a place at Oxford, which she has long revered [...]

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Jennifer Dubowsky, Acupuncturist — Bringing Eastern healing to the American Midwest

2 Comments Posted by on January 25, 2012

  Born in:   Bean Blossom, Indiana.   Now: Practicing acupuncture since 2001; currently has office in Chicago, Illinois, USA.    Cyberspace coordinates: Jennifer Dubowsky (business site); Acupuncture Blog Chicago (blog); @tcm007 (Twitter handle); Jennifer Dubowsky Acupuncturist - Facebook page.   Most recent post: Well Being Increases With Our Ability To Make Choices      Tell us how you went from “the smallest [...]

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Talking with author Dave Prager about his — deliriously unspiritual — expat experience in India

4 Comments Posted by on January 24, 2012

Reading like the work of a hipster Bill Bryson, Delirious Delhi is an account of Dave Prager and his wife Jenny’s move from New York to Delhi — the largest city in India by area and second largest by population — as they become what they term “New Delhi Yankees.” On arrival in their new [...]

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Travel yarn: The Holy Land, transformative art — and Michael Jackson?!

5 Comments Posted by on January 23, 2012

We welcome Joanna Liss to the Displaced Nation as a guest blogger. A veteran of volunteering overseas, she recently went to Israel with the voluntourism group GoEco — on a quest that can best be described as quasi-spiritual. I must confess I do not consider myself a particularly spiritual person. I have been on what [...]

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Yak-skin footware & the youthful quest for spiritual wisdom

8 Comments Posted by on January 20, 2012

We welcome back Lawrence Hunt to the Displaced Nation, who wrote a popular post for us in November about why the UK’s educated youth seems so preoccupied with voluntourism. Today he broadens this theme to include the quest for spiritual enlightenment. At a comedy night I went to last year, the comedian’s most popular jokes [...]

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The Displaced Q: Can travel and the expat life lead to a healthier diet?

17 Comments Posted by on January 17, 2012

Part of the formula for feeling better about oneself — TDN’s theme this month — is eating a healthier diet. Today Tony James Slater, the newest addition to our team, poses a Displaced Q on the eating habits of travelers and expats. I’m not sure what qualifies me to pose a question about food, since [...]

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Travel for excitement, not enlightenment

7 Comments Posted by on January 16, 2012

As I write this I am in a well-known brand of coffee shop. When I stop and think about it, it is all busy, a regular footpath of traffic. Office workers stream in and out for a shot of caffeine to get them through their Monday morning. In between customers the two baristas discuss the [...]

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