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Welcome to Travel With Reason: my ongoing travel musings. Photos in the gallery at left will link you to corresponding albums at Flickr; more photo links can be found below. You can email me at ronreason@gmail.com. Thanks for stopping by!
Kids show off their favorite books at The Hope Library, Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya [NAIROBI, Kenya] With a little bit of trepidation I made my fifth visit or so to this city’s Kibera slum – a “city within a city” of an estimated 600,000 to 1 million residents living in very challenging conditions – to [...]
[TEL AVIV, 12 June 09] One of the joys of my travels – or perhaps anyone’s – is the serendipity of happening on the unusual, surprising, inspiring, or fun. All four combined when I was able to witness the weddings of five gay couples on the beach in Tel Aviv, part of the city’s month-long [...]
[Lagos, Nigeria] Random observations and thoughts from the first two days in Nigeria: Sofitel hotel … fluffy bed (maybe a little too much – bad back in the morning) … concrete wall shuts out the outside world … impossible wi-fi (how on earth do these people blog?) … amazingly weak orange juice … large in-room [...]
On a business trip to Kenya, I booked a flight with Emirates Airlines’ to take advantage of their policy of free layovers in their connecting cities. Dubai isn’t exactly on the way to Kenya (it probably added 2 hours’ flying time), but I had just learned the week before that my friend Mario happened to [...]