Last updated Jun 30, 2022 | First published on Apr 1, 2019 | Travel Stories
After dragging around Bangkok’s Khao San Road for almost an hour, I realized I was hopelessly lost. I stumbled along wearily through a midnight forest of neon. Khao San Road was flicking its forked tongue for the Friday night circus. Masses of vespertine clowns...
Last updated Mar 29, 2023 | First published on Dec 15, 2015 | Mexico
I had several friends jokingly suggest that my two months of writing and voluntary isolation while house sitting in the Yucatan ( #theYucatanExperiment ) could go horribly wrong. Not vacation-misadventures type of wrong, but The Shining type of wrong. The experiment...
Last updated Sep 16, 2021 | First published on Feb 6, 2013 | Life on the Road
I’ve got friends who have never known the joy, the pain, and the benefits of staying in a hostel. One thing is for sure: Meeting people in hostels is easy. Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern that emerged. I tend to meet the same five types of travelers...
Last updated Mar 29, 2023 | First published on Mar 3, 2009 | Life on the Road
As I wandered this world alone for more than a decade, I kept notes for myself. My tattered journals written along the way are full of tips for living a life of travel. I decided to share these backpacker and digital nomad “pro” tips for anyone currently...
Last updated Aug 16, 2022 | First published on Jan 19, 2009 | Misc
I decided to do something different this week and touch on a few of the common myths about travel—the reasons I most often hear people give after saying they could “never do what I do” (enjoy a life of vagabonding travel). I still have smoke wafting off my...
