Sometimes positive outcomes of negative occurrences cannot be ignored. Like when tragedy at SeaWorld leads to a drop in attendance. In my last post, I wrote about how Spirit Airlines was the worst when they broke international law just so they could break my guitar. Spirit Airlines is to the airline industry what SeaWorld is…
Spirit Airlines is actively enforcing a policy that is in violation of international law, causes destruction to its passenger’s property, and strong arms defenseless passengers into signing away their rights. Last week my guitar—now broken—paid the price for Spirit Airline’s dubious luggage policy. There is no sin in running a budget airline. I love budget…
I’m planning a trip to Asia this fall. It’s one part of the world my shoes have yet to tread. One thing that I have noticed since adopting a location independent lifestyle is that my trip planning has gone the way of the buffalo. Since I am basically always in a new place to explore,…
It seems our Western culture focuses on the opposite: what you don’t have, but still want, and then pressures us to scrape more money together to by more excesses. I find myself today in a limbo that has become routine: in the temporal space between places. A month in New York has risen in its…
According to the difficult to doubt calendar, I have been in New York a stitch longer than a week this tumble around. I arrived in New York on a stark cold Monday morning. My sublet (as they do) had fallen through right before my arrival. I set about remedying that before meeting HEK; a Musician…
“Learning a new language will soon become obsolete because of the advancement of simultaneous translators,” an unpoetic friend once told me. With such a translator, you would speak into a box and that box would translate everything–flawlessly and fluently. My friend dreams of such technology because he struggles with learning new languages. The progression of…
I booked a flight to New York using Webjet and now I want to stand up and sing. It is a great travesty that I cannot stand up on my seat and belt out in my baritone, “The hills are alive with the sound of music!” Oh believe me, I want to. And I would. Every ounce of organ feels…
I was back in New York City after a meandering jaunt to Europe. Henry Hypnotic and I carried our instruments while discussing personal hygiene. We had spent the day making rounds across Brooklyn, and Henry feared that all this walking had awakened the body odor that lived inside him. He wanted to hit the subway…
People envy turtles because they do not have an existential crisis every time they visit a neighboring pond. Turtles do not need travel packing tips because a turtle’s packing checklist is simple: 1) Are all my limbs attached? 2) Is there anything nearby that wants to eat me? Like turtles, location independent people carry their…
Let’s admit it. All of us would like a full-time job as a writer working for the likes of National Geographic Magazine. While travel writing jobs likes this do still exist, for most of us mortals, such a dream job is just that. Fortunately, we live in a time where an aspiring travel writer need…
