travel
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Podcast Episode: Hong Kong Travelogue

Note. The underlying article can be found here: https://ajprokop.com/2026/09/28/hong-kong-travelogue/ Pip: Some journals survive the years by accident — a drawer never cleared, a box never tossed — and occasionally that’s a genuine gift. Mara: Andrew Prokop has been publishing exactly that kind of gift on Can You Hear Me Now. Today we’re spending the whole… Continue reading
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Hong Kong Travelogue

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust On March 28, 1998, I flew from Minneapolis to Hong Kong. As with my recently published trip to Ireland, I kept a travel journal that somehow survived the years. As with Ireland, I was there to teach… Continue reading
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Irish Travelogue

Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by sheep. Dave Barry I did a lot of business travel over my long career. Looking back, I realize that it was too much. Both my family and I struggled with the long absences. I didn’t see it at the time,… Continue reading
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The North Shore Simple Life

‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free‘Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,And when we find ourselves in the place just right,‘Twill be in the valley of love and delight Joseph Brackett I am a Cancer and us Cancers find great comfort in the familiar. I… Continue reading
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Scenes From Gitchi-Gami

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius I cannot begin to express how deeply I love the North Shore of Lake Superior. I first traveled here July of 1979 and after having grown up in Arizona, it was almost like going to another planet. I knew the desert like the back of my… Continue reading