A traveler can never have too much information. Fill your brain with everything you need to know about places, getting there, sleeping, eating and exploring. (If you have an awesome travel resource I don’t know about, please let me know, so I can add it!) (Top: street art in Amsterdam, Netherlands.) Low Budget…
As a small thank you to Ouma and her family for their gracious hospitality in Fez, we make them a big feed of pasta and cucumber salad. It goes down well, especially with the kids, and we are very flattered by the praise of the aunties. One Eid Al Adha I’ll never forget. …
Hitching in Malaysia is awesome. I landed in KL and hitched north to Thailand. My average wait time was about 1 minute. Cultural curiosity was probably part of it, but also, being a culturally Moslem country theres a common creed of helping out travellers. One lady stopped in a bright pink 70’s datsun, covered…
This should be a no brainer, people. Even if you think that gay people shouldn’t be able to marry, are you really so naive as to think that you can stop them? Wake up and smell the coffee, Bruce…
I started to notice that KC really liked certain harmonies. If I played an A or a G chord, she would stretch her neck out and howl a little bit, like she was singing…
“I bring to you giddy visions of the delicate and spectacular tendrils of narrative and prose that bind our universal consciousness!”
“What the..? Your claws are kind of hurting my scalp…”
“There are the same traps in Delhi as there are in every city in the world. In the west you’re used to having many things veiled. The difference here is that you can see clearly…”
Marlene stares at me, wide eyed.
“You hitchhiked from Scotland?”
“Most of the way, yeah. All across Europe.”
“Aren’t you exhausted?”
“I could use a beer…”
“Listen man, you got me at the wrong time. Normally I would try and have a conversation with you about this but I just hit my head really hard on the bathroom door frame, and I have no patience for your stupidity right now…”
I’m always looking for ways to stretch my dollars further, and I have found some simple ways to reduce my food budget.
Even in an expensive country like Australia, you can eat for as little as US$1.50 per day…
I loved the idea that exploring the universe didn’t have to be the preserve of heroic characters like Flash Gordon and Luke Skywalker. Any ordinary schmuck could grab a bag and a towel, and thumb a ride to Alpha Centauri or The Restaurant at the End of the Universe…
One Australian, two Colombians and two Belgians go up a mountain to see a giant Jesus. On the way we listen to music and swap travel stories. The music sounds a bit like a hip-hop boy-band produced by Ricky Martin…