Pull from favorite music blossoming in earbuds— that stairway into other worlds. Cease the chatter of powered creatures and they will let you deserved leave to hear a drip from the faucet which properly perceived is a forest facing the open window and its family of hewn sounds that tell us the time and set…
Guest Post by David Smith If you are going to be traveling, you will need to ensure your personal safety before you even think about leaving. There are certain investments you will want to make to ensure your personal safety for the duration of your travel experience. Life Insurance Whether you are traveling domestically or…
Guest Post by David Smith When you are travelling abroad it can be tempting to just carry on as normal and not think about whether you should change anything because you are abroad. This can be a mistake and it is worth thinking through what you should and should not do when you are visiting…
Guest Post by David Smith If you are planning a trip and do not have the money to pay for it, then there are options available to you. However, some of these can be dangerous as they will get you in to financial trouble. It is therefore wise to take a look at the list…
Are you ready to ADHD with me? There is just not time to put all of these into individual posts. So here we go. Enter the ADHD cruiser with me. The morning started with bloody, violent death. I was downstairs writing and the Guatemalan maid Ariela, who likely believes in omens, heard a crashing upstairs.…
Mountains can teach us plenty. In Morocco, a mountain taught me that I was an idiot for climbing it, since it almost resulted in my falling from it. In Chile’s La Campana Parque National, my friends and I learned after camping on a mountain that we should have packed more water and less wine. Most…
I am playing the best pool of my life. Not once, in four games tonight did I cause the cue ball become airborne and jump over the f-cking rail of the third floor loft of an Assisi bar, falling three stories below into the dinner of an displeased Italian man capable of wild hand gesturing…
I am at the entrance of a stone staircase built into the side of Antigua, Guatemala’s Cerro de la Cruz, Hill of the Cross. This is the beginning of a an 8k run dubbed some years back the “Suicide Death Run Sponsored by The Sore Calves Inc.” Every bit of the 8k is different degrees…
There’s a promised land we are all searching for. All of our inclinations and addiction, remoteness, disagreement and whatnot have been put aside as we align every impulse, action and affection towards it. We picture the land flowing with remorseless hills fluent in all dialects of pasture and privy to the whispers of late summer…
Say what anyone will about Guatemala, no one can dispute the fact that the country’s pants are stuffed with avocados. Avocados are to Guatemala what people are to China—they are everywhere in absurd abundance. They are so abundant that people nicknamed Guatemalans living in Antigua green bellies for the inordinate amount of avocados they eat…
