Category: Aiden Correia
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Braving Winter in Canada
At my hostel in New Orleans, as I sat huddled against the brisk evening winds clutching a cheap beer in my right hand and listening to the sweet sounds of jazz emerging from the impromptly put together stage to my left, I begun to question whether I had ever actually thought about the realities of…
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Introducing Huffy the Bike
Getting a bike has perhaps been one of the most impulsive things I have done during my travels. Within the span of two full days, I went from marinating the vague and far-off idea of hypothetically getting my own two-wheeled steed, to stepping into a Walmart and acquiring the cheapest one. The very next day,…
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Austin, Where Legend Lives on in The City that Once Was
Going into Austin, all I knew about it was that it was not like the rest of Texas. Going into Texas, most of what I knew was that it was a deeply-rooted red state where people love their guns more than anything, wear cowboy hats, fashion leather boots and drive large pick-up trucks (a sweeping…
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How to Stay Safe in NYC According to a Local: “Don’t Look Up!”
It wasn’t until my last day in New York City that I was told how to stay safe in the most populated city in the United States. At that point, I had already spent five days in upper Manhattan, taking the metro up and down at all times of the day (and night) and continuing…