It’s 5:45 a.m. Here I am blinking and staring stupidly at my computer screen in some coffee shop in the Atlanta airport after taking the redeye from Guatemala and sleeping somewhere between 1.5 hours & screaming baby. It’s so early that…
How Not to Use Couchsurfing – Nymphos in Berlin
Couchsurfing.org is one of the greatest internet inventions ever for traveling, but unfortunately over the years some people have done their best to turn it into another sleazy “hook-up” network, and use the website to get play. Before I go further…
How to Get Punched in the Face in Barcelona
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” – Abraham Lincoln Most every traveler has a story from their early days of traveling (maybe the first trip), that they are…
That One Time When I Was Robbed by 8 Women in Nha Trang, Vietnam
Have you ever been robbed? I have been – twice actually. Once time I was robbed at gunpoint in Charlotte, NC. Another time I was robbed by 8 women in Nah Trang, Vietnam. They weren’t black-belt, Kung-Fu, ninja-type women either. Nope,…
The 10 Cheapest Countries I’ve Been To
“How do you travel so much? Did you win the lottery or something? How do you have so much money to travel?” People ask me these questions often, and I always answer the same way – something along the lines of…
How to Deal with Corrupt Police in Bali
Best taxi driver ever “So what you want to do here in Bali?” “Um, I don’t know. The usual – ya know do some surfing, check out some temples, get bit by a monkey.” Turns out the random cab driver…