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If life’s a trip, I’m just filming the parts you’d normally miss 💛✨📹

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Holi is the Indian festival of colors - a celebration of spring, joy, and the triumph of good over evil.

The colored powder (called gulal) symbolizes letting go of the past, embracing playfulness, and honoring the beauty of life in all its shades...
May 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
1st mistake: Not realizing the curry would come in bags.

2nd mistake: Pouring it into hotel vases and cocktail glasses…only to remember we were literally at a Marriot and could’ve just called room service for actual bowls like functioning adults 🤦🏽‍♂️
May 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM
In 1968, The Beatles came to this ashram in Rishikesh looking for peace, clarity & a break from the chaos of fame.

George Harrison was the most spiritually curious of the group and really connected with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi & his whole Transcendental Meditation thing.

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May 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Indian street food is so sketch they literally have a term for it: "Delhi Belly" - which is basically Traveler’s Diarrhea with better branding 🤢
May 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
How to speak Indian
May 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Indian roadside c̶o̶c̶a̶i̶n̶e̶ sugarcane juice was so good we had to upgrade the rating from a 9.5 to a perfect 10.

50 rupees a glass... which is about $0.60 cents USD.

Fresh, sweet, and an excellent natural electrolyte.

Every time we find it, it’s 2 glasses, no debate.

Way better than lemonade IMO 😍🇮🇳🔥
April 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Luckily, they're aware of the issue and are working on improving it!

Claude's cool, but it has its own issues/pros/cons.

Gemini has been getting better quietly as well, so try it out!
April 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
don't worry... it's 100% organic and Shiva approved
April 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Violence doesn’t solve problems — it ends them.

☀️ Stay Solar ऋत
December 16, 2024 at 4:47 AM
Every so often, you need a reminder of how small you are — and how vast everything else is.

If that's what you're after, you can't go wrong with the Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

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December 8, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Gabon isn't a vacation; it's a test.

And you'll feel every moment of it.

A raw, unforgiving slice of Central Africa that most tourists will never see.

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December 6, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Clean water at your fingertips?

Not here.

Out here, there's no Aquafina or Sparklets delivery 🚚

If you want water for drinking or cooking, you take a drive to a faucet supplied by Mother Nature herself 💧

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November 28, 2024 at 7:33 PM
What do you do when your driver stops for roadside monkey shopping during a monkeypox outbreak?

You film it, obviously.

Gabon is full of unexpected moments, and this one is definitely up there.

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November 24, 2024 at 12:14 AM
The dose indeed makes the poison.

See:

"In all things, there is a poison, and there is nothing without a poison. It depends only upon the dose whether something is poison or not."

—Paracelsus

Although, whatever happens, psychedelics should be 100% decriminalized, IMO.
November 21, 2024 at 8:41 PM
As humanity's disconnect from nature reaches crisis levels, these words from Dr. Albert Hofmann, shared at age 101 shortly before his passing in 2008, resonates more powerfully than ever:

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November 20, 2024 at 12:27 AM
Deep in Central Africa stands the Mount Everest of plant medicine.

If you're unfamiliar...

(Tabernanthe) Iboga is a sacred plant native to Gabon and Central Africa 🌱

It dates back centuries and remains deeply intertwined with the spiritual practices of the region.

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November 19, 2024 at 1:58 AM
I planned this trip for 6 months, but 24 hours before my flight, everything went wrong ✈️

My passport, credit cards, and $2,000 in cash were stolen by the cleaning lady at my Airbnb — less than 24 hours before my international flight to Gabon 🇬🇦

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November 18, 2024 at 5:12 AM
Yo... these rappers be always flexin' about how hard their hood is, but where's the scale to measure the degree & level of HOODNESS?

I mean, we got the Scoville scale for spicy peppers & the Richter scale for earthquakes…

So where’s the Hood-o-meter™ to settle who’s really got the HOODEST hood?
November 17, 2024 at 6:05 AM
In a world where regular-ass desserts no longer satisfy, some have turned to more… extreme measures.

Introducing Black Strap Nutella—the premium, high-octane Nutella experience reserved only for hardcore Nutella junkies who aren't afraid to go that extra mile🕯🥄🍞
October 17, 2024 at 7:18 AM
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
April 13, 2024 at 2:29 AM
"We have always been a nation of immigrants who hate the newer immigrants.

Because Lady Liberty may appear to be a beacon to those yearning to breathe free, but the truth is, she’s actually a bouncer."

—Jon Stewart 🗽
September 27, 2023 at 6:15 PM
Have you ever heard of 'Hala Fruit'?

It looks like an exploding planet 🔥
September 26, 2023 at 7:32 AM
TIL
September 23, 2023 at 9:45 PM
Cuz he on the way probably
September 22, 2023 at 3:43 PM