Fraiku: Travel Benefits

Posted on 2024-06-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Travel broadens the mind
and the belly — do calories
count on vacation?

(Last night’s dinner was haggis pizza!)

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
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27 Responses to Fraiku: Travel Benefits

  1. equipsblog's avatar equipsblog says:
    2024-06-21 at 16:57

    Not a typical US pizza topping.

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  2. equipsblog's avatar equipsblog says:
    2024-06-21 at 17:17

    🤔🤯🙄

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  3. trE's avatar trE says:
    2024-06-21 at 18:01

    🤤🤤🤤 Yummy!!!

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  5. ivor20's avatar ivor20 says:
    2024-06-21 at 19:33

    The calories don’t know how to count, but they sure know how to multiply …

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  6. Michele Lee's avatar Michele Lee says:
    2024-06-21 at 20:00

    haha Consider them a souvenir. Enjoy!

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  7. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2024-06-22 at 02:28

    “….do calories
    count on vacation?”

    Definitely not! Enjoy!

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  8. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2024-06-22 at 02:31

    Can’t resist posting …my ‘Travel Broadens The Mind’ offering….

    https://theorkneynews.scot/2019/06/10/people/

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  9. JeanMarie's avatar JeanMarie says:
    2024-06-22 at 03:28

    excellent use of the em dash

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  10. chihuahuagirl3's avatar chihuahuagirl3 says:
    2024-06-22 at 04:58

    Good one!! Too funny!!!

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  11. luisa zambrotta's avatar luisa zambrotta says:
    2024-06-22 at 05:48

    Really brilliant!

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  12. LuAnne Holder's avatar LuAnne Holder says:
    2024-06-25 at 16:31

    Yes! But so do all those calorie-burning steps you take between sites and meals and more sites and lodging. Enjoy!

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