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And a warm Hello to all international travelers, be they backpackers, globetrotters, expats, rexpats, repats, or armchair dreamers. We have created a country for those of you who have traveled for so long and crossed so many cultures that you don’t seem to belong anywhere else.
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The Displaced Nation · 1d ago

THE DISPLACED Q: What’s the most delicate flavor you’ve sampled on your travels?

In a month where many of our posts have explored La Dolce Vita, I’ve been posing a series of questions to nomadic types on the sensory delights the wider world has to offer. Week after week, we’ve seen that if there’s such a thing as a formula for The Sweet Life — La Dolce Vita [...]
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The Displaced Nation · 2d ago

LIBBY’S LIFE #52 – Life: A series of hellos and goodbyes

Mum kisses me. “I love you,” she says. She’s done that quite a few times in the last couple of weeks, which is funny because she’s not really a kissy or “I love you” kind of person. When I was growing up, she displayed her affection via a surprise addition of homemade cake in my [...]
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The Displaced Nation · 3d ago

EXPAT BOOK REVIEW: “The Chalk Circle,” by Tara L. Masih, Ed.

TITLE: The Chalk Circle AUTHOR: Tara L. Masih (Editor) LITERARY AWARDS: 2012 Skipping Stones Honor Award AUTHOR’S CYBER COORDINATES: Website: www.taramasih.com PUBLICATION DATE: May 2012 (Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing) FORMAT: Ebook (Kindle) and Paperback GENRE: Anthology/Autobiography SOURCE: Review c
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The Displaced Nation · 4d ago

Living La Dolce Vita with Heather Hamilton — Writer, Sailor & Adventurer

One year ago almost to the day, Heather Hamilton and her husband cast off their docklines in Annapolis, Maryland, in their 40-foot ketch. Since then, they’ve covered over 3,500 miles, up the east coast of the U.S. and down through the Caribbean island chain. Life on the open seas with nary a care in
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The Displaced Nation · 5d ago

Staring at the sun — and 3 little “nothing” moments in my displaced life

Yesterday in San Francisco, at the corner of Folsom and 8th, I saw a middle-aged man holding up a sheet of dark glass and staring at the sun through it. “It’s beautiful,” he said to me as I passed him on the sidewalk, “so beautiful.” I smiled in reply to him, secretly wary that he just another crack
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The Displaced Nation · 1W ago

THE DISPLACED Q: What’s the most intoxicating scent you’ve encountered on your travels?

It’s Friday here at the Displaced Nation — La Dolce Vita time! For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been doing a series of posts in aid of living the sweet life — even if you’re feeling displaced! The key, of course, lies in cultivating an approach to travel involving the five senses. We began [...]
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The Displaced Nation · 1W ago

LIBBY’S LIFE #51 – On a cliff edge

A fly-on-the-wall observer of our household would see nothing wrong. They’d see a family who has time-travelled from the 1950s. A young wife at home with a preschooler and two babies; a granny who hovers solicitously around her daughter and oldest grandchild; a husband who is polite and calm and doe
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The Displaced Nation · 1W ago

RANDOM NOMAD: Jeff Jung, American Expat in Colombia & Career Break Travel Guy

Place of birth: Fredericksburg, Texas USA Passport: USA* Overseas history: South Africa (Vanderbijlpark): 1988-1989; Argentina (Buenos Aires): 2007 (on and off between March-December 2007, continuously from September-December); Colombia (Bogotá): 2009 – present. Occupation: Editor of CareerBreakSecr
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The Displaced Nation · 1W ago

EXPAT BOOK REVIEW: “Chique Secrets of Dolce Amore” by Barbara Conelli

TITLE: Chique Secrets of Dolce Amore AUTHOR: Barbara Conelli AUTHOR’S CYBER COORDINATES: Website: www.barbaraconelli.com Twitter: @BarbaraConelli Facebook: www.facebook.com/AuthorBarbaraConelli PUBLICATION DATE: May 2012 FORMAT: Ebook (Kindle) and Paperback, available from Amazon GENRE: Travel SOURC
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The Displaced Nation · 1W ago

Kidding yourself over La Dolce Vita

As you are doubtless aware, this month’s theme is la dolce vita, an Italian phrase meaning the sweet life. It would be remiss of us to choose that theme without referring to Fellini’s 1960 masterpiece of the same name. Regular readers of The Displaced Nation may not be surprised to learn that I was
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