Word: learnedness
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“We called those cannons,” said a man whose name we later learned was Juan Perkins. In Army fatigues and a brown fedora, Perkins was thin, with leathery brown skin sagging below his eyes. Pedaling towards them on a bicycle, he explained that he had...
Twenty dollars later, Perkins rolled away on his bicycle, leaving us alone. “Whatever,” Matt said. “I’d gladly pay $20. I learned more from him than I did from that museum.”
If travel really is the best education, information overload may be travel’s most overlooked risk. Six weeks in, here are some of the things Matt and Andrew had already learned: that “rodeo” is often a euphemism for sex; the seductive appeal of...
Nevertheless, they were confident they wouldn’t leave the trip having learned nothing. Experience made Matt sure of that: he’d had only five minutes with the Harvard students whose dorms he visited during last spring’s campaign, but he said he left the...
Country radio, I learned, is simultaneously the most fun and the most embarrassing music to sing along to in public. To do it, one must let go of all pride, adopt a serious twang, and periodically howl. Often, the words one must howl are ‘country?...