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Poem: Defecating In the Woods

From How We Are Human   Defecating in the Woods The world is open The sky is grey.   Things are sparse. I am bare.   There is no toilet paper but no one cares.   We use pinecones, And recently deceased squirrels. This is not a metaphor. We use these things to wipe ourselves.…

5 Things to Know About the Bathrooms When You Travel Asia

“Aim is key and until you sort it out the term soggy bottoms takes on a new meaning.” -Stephen Bischoff When you travel Asia, you are going to need to know about bathrooms. Luckily, all the information needed has been compiled right here thanks to a certain Stephen. Last week on Facebook, it may have…

Cow People: The Hamar People of Ethiopia and all their Crazy Antics

The historical evocation of American cowboys—razor burned and rugged cow people, clad in rusty spurs, saddle strung, roping and herding horned beasts across wild plains—along with the modern take on cowboys as gay men from Montana who can’t quit each other, both take the backseat in the bus of badassery so that the Hamar people…

Remembrance Poems: Her Life On Paper

I had never heard my grandpa sob before. His shaking hands grasped for the first time a book of my grandmother’s selected poetry, Her Life On Paper: Poems of Survival. Most people will remember Super Bowl XLVIII as the day the Seahawks trounced a dismantled Bronco’s team. My grandpa will remember it as the day…

Careers That Travel: 16 Jobs You Can Do From Anywhere

The doors to the world are open. Things have never been better for the freelancer/traveler. Location independent professionals encompass a wide cross section of people. What most have in common is a need for the freedom of determining their own hours of operation in the settings of their choice. For the many location independent people…

Jobs That Travel: How I Live A Location Independent Life

Jobs that travel are jobs you can do anywhere. People/Facebook friends, have apparently noticed that over the past two years I have been spending an inordinate amount of time traveling the world. “How do you afford to do that?” is a question I have gotten so many times, from so many people, that it is…

Visiting Iceland: Dispatch 1

Travel to Iceland First Time Visiting Iceland The four of us were visiting Iceland for the first time. We arrive in the capital Reykjavik, Iceland, the morning after a night of plane slumbering. No one could say for sure how long we had slept. Two hours? I guessed. But I tend to be liberal in…

Caring for Your Guitar on The Road: 5 Steps

5. Thou Shalt Not Give A Rat’s Rash About Thy Guitar The most important consideration in caring for your guitar while traveling, is not caring about your guitar. Buy thyself a guitar from eBay, Craigslist, or the classifieds on the cheap. If there is one musical instrument that corners the used musical instrument market, it…

Random Acts of Kindness: Hiding Dollars In The Dollar Store

“Random acts of kindness make the world a better place. We can make big difference in small things” Some people like to go to the dollar store to spend dollars. My 12-year-old brother Isaac like to go there and hide dollars for people to find. “Random acts of kindness make the world a better place.…

The Travel Tip That Will Change Your Life

Always roll one jar of peanut butter and two packs of tortillas deep Fact: You need to eat. Another Fact: Soon you will be hungry again. Starvation does not look nice on you because you have those irregular shaped rips. When traveling you have a plethora of priorities to keep tract of. Eating, your first pastime, can…