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Notes to Self - On Travel

Don't overplan

Show up and see what happens

Talk to people

Trust Existence

Allow randomness and serendipity to happen.

Avoid tourist to-dos like a plague

Travel through People - traverse their minds - be curious.

Travel through Food - don't order what you recognize - ask what is good.

Meditate in every new place - feel the place through meditation.

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