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Category Archives: Art & Engineering

LEGO – The Art of the Brick!

Posted on July 29, 2015 by No Map Required Posted in Art, Art & Engineering, Places, South Africa .
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I think anyone under 50 has some sort of childhood memory of LEGO bricks (even if it’s just stepping on a stray piece in your bare feet – we’ve all done that!). When Aaron was a kid, PapaBarr would wake up early on the weekends and make a LEGO creation and it for leave him

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Cape Town has Street Art, too!

Posted on July 7, 2015 by No Map Required Posted in Art, Art & Engineering, Places, South Africa .
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One thing I’ve learned on our trip is that there are artists expressing themselves everywhere and in every way possible! It’s been so inspiring seeing so much – lots of craftwork, many jewelers, a few textile artists and, of course, painters! Today I present some of the street art we’ve come across here in Cape

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Tanzania Travels Part 5: Exotic Zanzibar and Returning to Life On Our Own

Posted on July 3, 2015 by No Map Required Posted in Art, Art & Engineering, Places, Tanzania .
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Zanzibar. Just say it aloud, Zan-zii-baaaar….. it’s the coolest named place!! It just sounds exotic, and it is. Stepping into Stone Town is exactly like stepping back in time. Zanzibar is almost entirely Muslim, so robes and scarves are everywhere. The narrow, crazy roads of Stone Town, the old center of Zanzibar city, are like

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Tanzania Travels Part 3: Tanga Tie-Dye!

Posted on July 1, 2015 by No Map Required Posted in Art, Art & Engineering, Places, Tanzania .
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Walking into the unfinished church, we were ushered to the front and asked to individually greet every person there. Only knowing about four Swahili phrases, this wasn’t as easy as you might guess! How’d we find ourselves in this position, I hear you thinking. Well, there-in lies a tale. In Tanga, a few days earlier,

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Taking a step back with those funny funiculars

Posted on June 22, 2015 by No Map Required Posted in Art & Engineering, Chile, Engineering, Places .
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This is one of those posts we meant to do awhile back, but never had the chance! So, take a step back in time with me to our right after Patagonia when we spent a few days exploring the town of Valparaiso, Chile. It’s a nice enough town with a port, some artists, a bunch

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