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Summer in Chicago & Reflections on a Whirlwind Year

"Freedom is dialog," a political sticker in Sofia that I found relevant after experiencing the 2016 US election while traveling there. ©KettiWilhelm2016

“Apocalypto:” The 2016 US Election as Seen from Europe

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Van Part 7 - Flooring! Damn, it's hard to make thi Van Part 7 - Flooring! Damn, it's hard to make this sexy. 😂  As you can tell from the video, it was a pretty slow, tedious, precision type of job. (Which, frankly, my nerd heart loves. ❤)  But that doesn’t explain why I’m acting like an insane person who hasn’t slept. It’s not drugs. It was the Saturday after election day, and I was feeling all those hope-y, change-y feelings. Anyone else remember that?  I still believe in it. The best is yet to come. And someday I’ll be able to get a haircut, too. 💇 ✌
Continuing the van building distraction: Part 6, T Continuing the van building distraction: Part 6, The Wood Ceiling! 🌲  Made from leftover Blue Pine boards piled in my dad's shop, stained by yours truly, and painstakingly wedged into place on an uneven, curved ceiling.  Definitely a square peg / round hole kind of job, but it makes this old Chevy feel like a cabin in the woods! 💚
My mind has been far away from our van project lat My mind has been far away from our van project lately, so I'm a few steps behind in sharing this story. But here we go – Part 5: climbing around on top of a car like a '50s pin-up model, but with more '90s grunge vibes. 🔧 💃  🎬 Video of course by @theaviaoexperience
You may have noticed my stories got a little vulga You may have noticed my stories got a little vulgar and angry and political yesterday. Well, expressing how I feel about what happened in my country yesterday required a lot of fucks.  But first, congratulations to @raphaelwarnock and @jonossoff , who both broke barriers yesterday!  As for the rest of it, well…  This might seem like a break from my usual travel posts, but it’s not. Travel IS political, and I write about it as such. Travel writers and bloggers SHOULD ABSOLUTELY talk about what’s really happening in a place – politics and oppression included.  We’re quick to point out when other countries are unsafe to visit, but what about our own? 
Of all the wealthy democracies I’ve visited and lived in, I've never seen a place with such  terrifying hypocrisy as the United States. And I’m on the easy side of it – I’m white!!  My favorite political science professor in college said, “The only defining marker of a stable democracy is the peaceful transition of power.”  Yesterday, the only “stable” thing I saw was the predictable impunity for white thugs and domestic terrorists who stormed Congress like out-of-control children – because they lost an election. And because they knew they could get away with it. No person of color would ever imagine they could do that in this country.  That is the REALITY OF AMERICA TODAY. And the world is watching.  How could ANYONE abroad see a country where anyone can have a gun, and any hostile, armed (white) person with a grudge can walk into the highest offices of government without being stopped, and think: “That sounds like a nice place for a vacation”?  This is the kind of impunity and lawlessness that makes the US State Department warn us not to visit other countries.  So tell me, if you’re thinking of visiting the USA as a traveler, how safe does it seem right now???  📸 : Photo is from a Trump protest in Chicago back in 2019. The sentiment is what we still have to live up to.
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My mantra for the new year. ☝️ I’m looking f My mantra for the new year. ☝️ I’m looking forward to lots more change, new gigs, moving, exploring, learning and, just like last year, adapting to and learning to do things I never thought I could. (Just hopefully more fun things. 🏄‍♀️ 🧳)  Whatever you’ve got in mind, here's to 2021!
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