Vagabonding: How to Meet People

People often inaccurately associate vagabonding with vacation-style travel, where the objective is to accumulate 2,000 photos of forgettable landmarks and beach horizons on disk, never to be looked at again. With the average, hard-working American being entitled to only two weeks of vacation per year, often little time is left for the most exciting part [...]

A Vagabond Returns Home

Upstairs, a spent Christmas tree sits quietly in the darkness; all the carefully wrapped gifts beneath having long been looted, and now even the tree itself has transformed from joy to burden as someone has to take it down. Orion is dazzling just outside of my door up in a crispy, winter sky. An occasional satellite arcs quietly [...]

Off to Bangkok

For two months I have been telling people that I was leaving the U.S. finally, although I wasn’t sure when. I was met with half belief. Hell, I half believed it myself. As we learned after countless false alarms in the Army: it isn’t really happening until you’re on a plane. And that is exactly [...]

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