e-travels with e. trules

If you remember, I last left you at the end of Part 1 getting off a hot, crowded bus which took me from Tetouen, Morocco to… Chechaouen, Morocco. It turns out that not all "ouens" are the same. I'm getting off the bus when I see a seated Islamic man dressed in all white, staring intently at me. He has a computer in his lap, and it's not too long after 9/11. He points at me and I'm…. terrified… expecting the explosive worst…. only to find out that he's pointing at my blue plastic CD player which I've left in my seat. "Shokrun", I say, "thank you", the only word I know in Arabic, as I get off the bus, the victim of my own racial profiling.

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Chuck Jonkey is an adventurer, composer, and musician who transforms his off the beaten track travel experiences into sound, music and film. Chuck's exotic adventures have taken him to the furthest reaches of the planet where he seeks out some of the world's most isolated tribal groups, embeds himself in their cultures, and records their music. His musical explorations have taken him from the deep rain forests of the Peruvian Amazon to the Far East Asian jungles of Cambodia. Along the way, he sometimes has to steel his will and politeness to endure a special dinner…. of RAT.

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This adventure — is about my trip to Morocco, after I finish my travels in Andalucia. I take a boat from the southeastern tip of Spain's port, Algeciras, across the Strait of Gibralta, to the northern-most tip of Africa, Ceuta, still Spanish territory… until I cross the Spanish-Moroccan border – by foot – and end up in Tetouan…. Morocco… at the base of the Atlas Mountains. This is not your typical tourist trip to Tangier, Fez, Marrakesh, or Casablanca, but more like a Paul Theroux personal odyssey to see the green cannabis fields and rising moon over…. Chefchaouen.

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Greetings from the Outback, Maties! Today I'll be talking with James Michael Dorsey, explorer, photographer, lecturer, and award-winning author, who has traveled to over 47 countries in the last 15 years. "Jim" has been called a "combination of swashbuckling adventurer and spiritual seeker" because he visits and documents disappearing indigenous tribes by embedding himself in their cultures. He told me "when you contract with a remote tribe, you roll the dice on whether you're going to come back alive." Exciting travel, Maties!

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It was a crazy idea. Loco. No, a good one. Bueno. Driving thousands of miles in my white Toyota Celica, which stood out like an automotive sore thumb… all the way from LA to… Ciudad Juarez… to Chihuahua… to Real de Catorce, an old silver mining town in the sacred hills of the Huichol Indians. Along the way, Miguel and I discovered many things… the most outstanding of which… was not only the immense beauty and variety of Me-hee-co herself, but even more striking — the ageless differences between ourselves, me, a 50 year old gringo… and him, my

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Kate Erickson emanates all the sunshine and positivity of Southern California. She is passionate about helping entrepreneurs create freedom in their businesses and in their lives – through developing systems and processes that can help their business scale and grow. I wasn't exactly sure what that meant, but Kate explains it all in this episode…. along with talking about plans for a new EoFire travel podcast about "audio walking tours of the world's greatest cities".

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We're back in Deadwood, South Dakota…. where you last left me in Episode 26…. in jail. It's September, 1970 and I've been arrested for reckless driving,,,, by Sheriff Deadwood Dick McGraff. I'm in Wild Bill Hickok's jail cell, on the day after Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose. I have long Jewfro hair just like Jimi, and my jail mates have taken a distinct dislike to me. I've just woken up the day after my arrest. I'm lying on a cot next to a gigantic Native American Indian named "Neck". His arms are the size of tree trunks.

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Mike Siegel is a professional stand-up comedian, fellow travel podcaster, and TV host based in Los Angeles, California. Plus… he's an overall good guy. Mike created the Travel Tales Podcast in 2011 – which he sees as a lighthearted conversation highlighting the best, and worst, experiences that travel has to offer. I think Mike and I are both trying to do the same sort of thing on our podcasts…. bring the world closer together… one travel tale at a time.

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I was doing one of the most patriotic things I've ever done in my life – going to Mt. Rushmore - to see George, Tom, Abe, and Teddy… whose Presidential images were all cracked and decayed… just like our country. I end up making a little detour – to the old cowboy and mining town of Deadwood, South Dakota… long before David Milch, Al Swearingen, and HBO got there. Rumor has that Wild Bill Hickok was Sheriff of Deadwood back in the day, and I… discover something about Wild Bill's jail… first hand. And about the new Sheriff in town named… Deadwood Dick McGraff.

http://erictrules.com/episode26

"I've always wanted to be an 'ex-pat', an American living outside of the United States. Never more so than in this tenuous time of Trump!" So at Podcast Movement 17 in Anaheim, I do a live interview with Shannon Moore Martin of Podbean, who lives in Shanghai. We talk of many things – like living internationally, and working for one of the biggest podcast hosting companies in the world.

http://erictrules.com/episode25