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  1. My brother's sister-in-law traveled abroad with other people she hadn't met before and met and later married a Spaniard.

    Recently I met his Mom for the first time one Christmas, They all live in Madrid where I lived before. I'm fluent in Spanish having

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    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  2. Another thing I get from social media is that it can prompt me to discover things about myself that help me on my metaphysical journey.

    Another form of #blacktravel

    Just now someone asked me if I was in therapy and

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    #selfdevelopment #abusesurvivor #neurodivergent #blackmastodon

  3. My Mom needed a lift/ride this morning so I awoke after 40 minutes sleep and had my first Nescafe instant Expresso and I was amazed at how alert I immediately was. :)

    I visited Cuba in '03. They call expresso there Cuban breakfast. :)

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    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  4. Liu later finds her scripted schizophrenic son living on the street.

    [I visited Vamcouver once. It was the first time I saw Chinese people living on the street.]

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    #blacktravel #mentalhealth

  5. Somalis in Toronto used to start speaking to me in Somali. I learned the word for peace to say back to them. I took their mistaking me for one of their own as a compliment.

    A similar thing happened when I visited Ethiopia.

    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  6. I lived in Hong Kong 1996 to 1998 :)

    I once saw a younger Chinese brother wearing the colors (red, gold, and green) and asked him whether he knew what they meant and he replied that he didn't.

    What I always like about that moment is that he was willing to listen

    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  7. The only country I have been to where a local encouraged me to date another local was Hong Kong :)

    I lived there from 1996 to 1998 :)

    #blacktravel

  8. I'm an atheist.

    I drove around europe in 1991. I set myself the challenge of picking up every hitchhiker. The first one bible bashed me for an hour. I just listened.

    Later I picked up three young Polish women and at some point I pulled over for 40 winks and

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    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  9. I bought the cheapest air freshener for 69

    I just sprayed it.

    Now I'm wondering if I'm going to get high from the chemicals it might contain.

    I learned Spanish in Guatemala in '98. In '03 I re-visited Mexico City - DF - and

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    #movie #blacktravel #drugs #workingclass #blackmastodon

  10. I walked up to a brother and greeted him and we were cool as we always are. This is Black Unity.

    East european whites stepped into my personal space annoying me.

    Instead of responding I first tested how they reacted to the same; so I stepped into their personal space and

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    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  11. In 2019...

    This evening I popped into Mayan's Fusion Cooking on Chapeltown Road, Leeds and had Cameroonian ogbono soup with athieke originally from the Ivory Coast which hit the spot. Ogbono is made with meat, okra, and ground wild mango seeds and

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    #travel #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  12. When I first visited Spain in '91, I drove there from London in my light blue Ford Capri 1600 without a word of Spanish or even a phrasebook :)

    When I later visited Mexico, I remember having learned as much as I could from that phrasebook before finally learning Spanish in Guatemala in '98 :)

    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  13. When I worked in Frankfurt in '91, my boss was so impressed with my good work that he drove me over to Stuttgart and the (Hugo) Boss discount warehouse there, where I then purchased a pair of jeans, tuxedo, waistcoat, suit, and kashmir coat all for less

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    #blacktravel #blackmastodon

  14. Back in October, I bought my first @Amtrak rail pass & had one of the most impactful trips I've taken. Back in January, they had a special for it ($299!!) for ten segments. I couldn't pass it up so Im taking to the rails once upon. #travel #trains #travelnoire #blacktravel