The Long Way North – Guatemala City to Mexico Looks easy on a map, doesn’t it? About 1,500 kilometers, give or take. A nice straight line pointing north. In reality? It’s a slog through dirt roads that’ll rattle your teeth loose, heat that makes you question every life choice that brought you here, and bus… Read More “On Four Hundred Dollars to Cancún”
Following the Trail of the World’s Highest Waterfall June 7th – The Border Crossing They don’t wake me as promised. Of course not. But some internal alarm clock jolts me awake at seven – just in time to grab my backpack and dash across the street to the Rodoviaria. The bus is running late! With… Read More Venezuela: A Journey to the Angel Falls
“The Taste of disgust” I arrive in a tiny mountain village on Flores with that typical backpacker optimism – you know, the kind that makes you think Indonesia is just one big adventure waiting to happen. The sun has already disappeared behind the jagged peaks, my legs are burning from hours of trekking, and the… Read More Nightmare in the Indonesian Highlands… Read More Nightmare in the Indonesian Highlands
1600 Kilometers Against the Current from Manaus to Leticia After two months under the Brazilian sun of Porto Seguro and sleepy Arraial d’Ajuda, I’d had enough of beach life and salty sea air—I longed for something wilder, more unpredictable. The Amazon was calling, and I was foolish enough to answer. The Journey to Manaus: A… Read More Nine Days on the Amazon River
“Reflections of a Homecoming Traveler” After years of drifting, of endlessly moving from one place to the next – from bus terminals to train stations, from hostels to hotels – I return home.Not because I planned to. But because I was tired. Tired of the restless life.Tired of always chasing something new, something that never… Read More Quiet Arrival – A Return to the Ordinary
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