“When my hangover relents and the speedo-wearing octogenarian disembarks the bus, my awareness extends beyond my own mind.”Travel Nicaragua: 19 Hour Hungover Bus Ride There Dan, my roommate in Guatemala, rouses me just after midnight. He is going to bed, and in a few minutes, my taxi will arrive and whisk me to Guatemala City…
Last march I was joined by HEK, an Icelandic Singer/Songwriter and poet whom I had met in the previous year. He wrote the poem “Nowhere” right before he came to the US, and in Brooklyn taverns and late night jam sessions would recite it to whatevcer haphazard groups we’d managed to assemble. It has a…
This month Travel Write Sing is partnering up with Clothing Arts to present: The Great Bearded Giveaway. Two creative readers will win either a pair of Pick-Pocket Proof Adventure Travel Pants ($110) or a Clothing Arts’ Ultimate Travel Shirt ($70). When you travel, you want to eat ice cream, not to have your wallet and iPhone stolen.…
Scroll down to the bottom to find out about how you can win stuff 2:12pm: I’ve just finished a run up a mountain, ate a bean sandwich, slayed a dragon fruit, cleaned up my messes and at the moment I’m still in running attire, smoking a cigarette, listening to Kids on the Run by The…
Travel is a mentality. 19 hours in an overnight bus begins as they tend to in Central America,my 11:30pm bus out of Guatemala City is cancelled and my departure time is moved to 4am. There are unforeseen delays, inexplicable and at no point, not even at a change of bus in El Salvador, am I given a physical…
I think the best years of your life are any years where you are singing that song of yourself to a choir of friends all singing their own in harmony with yours. Are The Best Years of Your Life are Over? We were just about to touch down in Guatemala and it was time to…
The following is an excerpt from the manuscript I have been working on/existentialist crisis-ing on for the past two years. It is a non-fiction book details experiences from living in Guatemala 2008-2012, with the working title of “A Gringo’s Guatemala” that is in its second drafting. *** Gossiping is a problem in most work places and at the…
It is not uncommon for avid travelers to meet on the road. Since for many a love of travel is a prerequisite, meeting a fellow traveler on a trip assures at least that much in common. But travelers Lisa Niver Rajna and George Rajna’s lover affair did not begin in some far-flung, romantic destination. Like…
Just as some find fortune in driblets of bird ordure scoring a free throw on their face, people say rain on your wedding day is good luck. Regarding the relative advantage that the arrest of the best man bestows upon the wedding party, the folklore is mum.Shortly after he was adopted from Kenya, my brother Calvin…
All around town evidence of the bandit’s coruscating reign of sparkle could be seen on glinting faces that puckered in a scowl whenever you asked them why they were wearing glitter. During a bear attack, one has at least some idea of how he will react (make friends with the bear via Doritos, play dead,…
