In my experience, the best place to meet musicians who have access to that hidden well of melodic muses is to go to an eccentric bar off the beaten path. Musicians flock to underrated and unknown bars hosting their music like midnight moths hurl themselves into open flames. Scientists tell us that the moth’s motivation…
Two years ago, from a couch in Brooklyn, things seemed to be simultaneously going horribly awry and working out just splendidly. I was a year into the dream of supporting myself by freelance writing. I had just returned stateside from Kenya, where I covered their 2013 elections as a freelance journalist. But that trip, and…
“What’s going on?” A Canadian traveler asks her Australian boyfriend. All around them colored eggs (cascarones) are exploding, circulating their payload of confetti and glitter onto the people warring across the park. Mayan women without cascarones improvise by grabbing fistfuls of flour and throwing it into faces. Children, armed with…
Travel To Guatemala with $5,000 and you can live comfortably for a year. Calling all starving artists! When I was working for an NGO in Antigua, Guatemala, our volunteers were paid $400/month. This may not seem like a lot, but somehow, they not only made it work, they thrived. They took weekend trips to the…
Iceland Sheep speckling green countryside Towns that only know their name The drone of draining Waterfalls stuttering a shutter Black sand dark like Ashen wool of rams Bred for wildness by Frostbitten fingers Lingering in towns that only Know their name Sunset hues at noon Subside at the season’s Undecided hour Colorful painters Do not…
Travel Write Sing is about traveling, writing and singing, but it is also about interacting with local populations in a way that leaves both the traveler and the locals the better for it. Since 2013,some of my readers, family, friends and I have helped an orphanage in Uganda called The Phoenix Orphanage Organization, founded by…
Volcano Guatemala – It Could Happen to You The first page of the newspaper feels like oily sandpaper from the volcanic ash clinging to the ink of the lead photo which depicts glowing lava from El Volcan de Fuego, which just blew a plume 600 meters into the troposphere. It adds immediacy to the Prensa…
Travel quotes are those intrepid one-liners we scrawl in our dirty notebook, cut up and tape to our mirror, or in extreme cases, tattoo onto our ass. Travel quotes remind us why we’re chosen the open road instead of, say, the cubicle. Travel quotes remind us why we’ve chosen the open road instead of, say, the…
The burden of existence for a holiday is one person celebrating it once a year. Mariachi Day is a holiday I celebrate annually with whomever I can convince to take the day off life and join me in a horse drawn carriage to meet a Mariachi band—Los Principes—In San Felipe, Guatemala. Los Principes are the direct…
Towards Semuc Champey, our rusted pickup tumbled like a tank over the muddy rainforest road. Amid a rolling green backdrop, men adjusted their packages in order to avoid them jostling into other men’s asses. We were fifteen dudes packed into the cab of a rumbling pickup truck. “Where are all the girls?” an Australian asked…
