I’ve never before tried working as a “digital nomad,” and it’s been nearly a decade since I’ve traveled in lands where I didn’t really know the language. Travel has changed astonishingly during my lifetime: most of the change is massive improvement: Google Maps, ubiquitous cellular data, Tripadvisor, Uber, Airbnb, translation apps, Street View,… any one of these tools and services would itself ease and simplify travel — but taken altogether, travel can be much more comfortable and sure. And given all the various bodily complications that now make travel more difficult for me, these new developments are really a game-changer for me.…
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… Did I learn from previous experiences? Did I stop myself cold and create a new plan? I did not, no. I decided to walk down Av. Almirante Miguel Grau towards the main square and either take away or find a nice place to eat. This never works well, since my decision-making brain is the first thing to go when I get hungry.…
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Friends have expressed concern — and who can blame them? — that no one has heard a peep from me since I posted the good news weeks ago that I didn’t have COVID, and the concomitant news that I did have flu.… I have been in Lima for 6½ weeks, all of which has been delightful. And on a few of those days I have felt 100% myself — and, indeed, those days have been terrific. But for about half of the days I have been plagued by, shall we say, a fairly violent version of a Common Travellers’ Complaint.…
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As any traveller knows altogether too well, there are several different types of “standard” electrical plugs around the world. There are many web sites that purport to explain the different standards and that offer color-coded maps showing what plugs are used in what countries — but the information is highly contradictory and, in the case of Peru at any rate, incorrect.…
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I’m a bit behind in posting, for which I ask your indulgence. I’ll temporarily skip over my adventures of the weekend, and briefly write that a vague tickle in my throat on Sunday night developed extraordinarily rapidly into a pretty bad illness. This is 2024, however, so the big question was whether or not it was COVID, especially since the symptoms seemed identical to those when I contracted COVID in May of 2020. Dear Peruvian Tolkien Society friends pointed me to a MiFarma web page.…
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