For many years I backpacked on a very tight budget, sleeping in the cheapest Hotels, using public transport, mainly bus and train, sometimes boat, ferry, the occasional hitchhike, and occasionally fly in small planes. Traveling like this can get quite intense sometimes, but it is definitely the best way to get in touch with the… Read More Diverse ways to experience a country
From Paradise to Freezing Hell So I’m back in Los Angeles, fresh off a two-month gig painting rooms at a youth hostel in Hawaii. Tropical weather, ocean breeze, the whole postcard thing. Paul, who manages a few hostels in LA, hits me with news: Brian – the guy who owns the whole hostel chain and… Read More Living and working in New York City
Often, we find ourselves reflecting, questioning the course of our lives. What about the present? The past? What have I truly experienced up to this point in my life, and what am I doing here at all? Have I pursued what I truly wanted, or simply followed the natural course of life, doing what was… Read More “The Struggle Between Expectation and Desire”
I am in Ushuaia, Argentina, the supposedly southernmost City in the world. After 2 months traveling through southern Chile and Argentina I am no longer able to stay warm. It is middle of summer and the outside temperature never gets above 15° C The constant wind goes through and through. I can not even warm… Read More Ambush in Argentina
It’s Sunday noon. I sit at home. Outside, the world is utterly still.all I can hear is the soft whispers of nature — birdsong, rustling leaves, the occasional distant car.It’s the first real scorcher of the year, over thirty degrees. The kind of heat that makes the air shimmer. Everyone is out there, soaking it… Read More What a wonderful weekend
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