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Gaining Perspective in a Chaotic World

by Meredith Mullins on November 17, 2020

Time to shake things up?
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The Rewards of Seeing from Varied Angles

How often does your perspective change these days? Can you think of times when you expanded your view of a situation or of the world just by changing your point of reference?

  • Perhaps when you summited a mountain and the 360-degree vista expanded exponentially while distant objects became flattened miniatures that suddenly seemed small in the grander scheme of things?
  • Or, when you looked down and found a detail in the street that you’d never seen before even though you’d walked over it a thousand times?

Ears Wide Open: The OIC Soundscapes Challenge

by Meredith Mullins on October 27, 2020

What do you see, smell, taste, feel . . . and hear in this bustling street?
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Turn Up the Sound on Your Travel Adventures

Take a moment. Close your eyes. What do you hear?

Silence? Auditory stimuli that provide clues to where you are? Sounds that might remain in your sense memory for some time to come?

Especially when we travel, all our senses are alive. We see. We smell. We touch. We taste. We hear.

Sights, smells, and a symphony of baa’s.
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Travel adventures are enhanced when we are multisensory. Oh, I see. Soundscapes can expand our experience exponentially.

The Paris Pigeon Man

by Meredith Mullins on September 14, 2020

The Paris Pigeon Man
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Adding Layers to Traveling Stories

Every city has its celebrity characters, from the naked cowboy in New York’s Times Square to the ragged beggar in Bucharest, who spends his day asking for money and then gives it all to the local church.

Finding these characters, by chance or by design, adds adventure to one’s traveling stories.

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