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Reflections from Riga: confession time

October 16, 2019by Jen Rice4 Comments on Reflections from Riga: confession time
Reflections from Riga: confession time

Other than my 7:30 am soy latte addiction and omnipresent camera, I've never admitted to being a tourist. I equate it to being "spiritual but not religious:" I can travel without supporting the nearly $9 billion-per-year tourism industry that carries our commercialized way of life like a virus, infecting and ultimately killing the charming uniqueness [...]

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