On walking Amman -- A physically tough city to walk, but with a payoff worth the sore calves and hamstrings.
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And one weird comic book series that only the French could like.
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There are at least 20 movie plots in this book
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Paul walks a lot more than me, and has been doing it a lot longer, and seems to like nature more than I do (sorry, I'm a city guy).
Still, great hearing from someone who generally thinks the same & gets that the best way to understand the world, is, well, to simply walk it.
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Listen to a great conversation between @PaulSalopek and @tylercowen, who asks Paul, with a chuckle, “What do you do for exercise?”
Lessons learned from taking it one step at a time: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/paul-
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Here’s my prior piece on pigeons in NYC. This one’s free
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I wrote about pigeons again. This time in Amman. (sorry, paywalled, but whats a content creator gonna do?)
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Back to my favorite subject. This time in Amman
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Almost any preserved historical site is that rebuilt teddy bear. It is still be called the same name, but it’s very different. And does that matter?
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This is a great illustration of the Ship of Theseus paradox, as applied to historical monuments.
Like is notre dame cathedral still, after the fire, notre dame? Is the Hagia Sofia, after many many many rebuilds, still the Hagia Sofia?
And if so, why?
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This is quite remarkable. After winter storms in January last year, we found the remains of an old teddy bear washed up. When we shared a picture online, Anglican priest @CassWoollibold asked if she could restore him.
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One of these things is not like the other....
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I could have posted this tweet from a Huddersfield Wetherspoons
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Best part of this, which I get, is that it’s posted from Binghamton NY.
Which is kinda a perfect first town to visit in US.
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My first time in the USA and I must say it is capitalism in its most naked, violent form. I didn't expect to get a culture shock, but the commodification of everything is on a level I never truly thought possible. It is the socialisation of misery and the privatisation of wealth.
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28 hours later. Home.
Ps: why does step counters steal steps when you change time zones? I lost 25k steps, presumably disappeared into the 8 hour gap the plane erased. Sad!
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You can read my piece on Amman here. Lots more coming in next few weeks. On Amman’s food, their pigeon keepers, and then getting from Amman to Israel via bus & West Bank.
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Tonight’s my last night in Amman, sad! But I wrote about what is perhaps the friendliest city I’ve been in.
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Heading home after three weeks in Amman and Tel Aviv. I’ll miss a lot, but probably the food the most.
Sabra just isn’t gonna hit the same as before.
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Woke up in middle of night, checked score. Damn. Jags toast. Maybe next year.
This morning. 😀😀😀
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For those in the know.
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You know what they say, when in Tel Aviv do as the Eritreans do.
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Someone in Amman is selling a plastic Nebraska football helmet. If you in the need for one
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We all drank from 11 am till 5pm; ate lots, then they ended it all with a round of very drunken Shabbat shaloms.
So. Shabbat shalom
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Gave up walking Tel Aviv, because it isn’t really my type of town (it is very nice mind you, just not my thing), and ended up spending all afternoon at an old man bar. That was very much my thing.
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I think back to when my family went to Italy in 1978 and found a tiny pizza place that tried to dress up their brick oven as an electric oven because, at the time, technology = better!
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Not sure why everyone's tweeting about gas stoves, but I always thought it was funny that when I grew up in South getting money meant finally splurging on an electric stove, then when I moved North it was the exact opposite.
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Aaaaaw. Thanks McDonald’s. Happy winter to you as well.
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Getting from Amman to Tel Aviv, via bus, is, well, one trip.
Old school border crossing.
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Hello Tel Aviv. Only took six buses, a train, and lots of walking. 7 hours later. Pay-dirt
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Tonight’s my last night in Amman, sad! But I wrote about what is perhaps the friendliest city I’ve been in.
open.substack.com/pub/walkingthe
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Amman is super hilly, and super friendly.
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Amman is super hilly, and super friendly.
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Here’s my piece on pigeon keepers of NYC
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So I found the pigeon keepers of Amman.
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The thing you get in Amman that is rare in the US. The very aggressive Electric Car driver
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I’m gonna eventually die by a Hybrid or electric car that silently takes out my legs.
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Trying to decide which of these three 55 hour plus bus routes will be the best
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More stairs. More and more stairs.
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Just a 45 story climb up some rough stairs.
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Nobody told me just how amazing the food in Amman would be.
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Hey. I went to New College of Florida.
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