Travels

What Do You Do When Your CouchSurfing Host Is A Nudist?

  Couchsurfing.com is a wonderful service that connects intrepid, open-minded travelers willing to host or be hosted in a new city or foreign country. For budget travelers, it is a godsend that saves them the second biggest expense of traveling: lodging (the first, of course, being your bar tab). But what happens when your host…

How To Drink All The Free Wine When You Fly

“If there’s turbulence, I will have a panic attack in the air,” Darko told me with a trembling stare. “I asked them and they told me that I can get a refund. I will take the bus.” I set down the proof of my book I was copy editing and put my hand on Darko’s…

How Medusa Seduced Us

I feel I should offer some context here before posting this to the world… There was a lot of whiskey consumed before Tony, Tyler and I decided to make up a song about Medusa. We were camping in Missouri (or as it’s called instate Mah-zura). One of the favorite pastimes of my brother Tyler and…

Connectivity Around The Campfire

I think we’re going about arriving at the Harvest Music Festival on Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas in an ideal way. Originally we had planned to spread the 24-hour drive across three days, stopping off in cities where friend’s company and open ended offers to crash on their couches greeted us. A few days before…

On The Road Again

If I were the queen of the nest of hornets that lives in my parents’ roof, I would have sent the wasps all at once. I think they would have had better odds, whatever their plan. As it was, the wasps came today one at a kamikaze time, flying into the open window to a…

Mariachi Pub Crawl 2012

So, one November in 2011 I thought some friends and I could turn a regular Friday night in Antigua, Guatemala, which given, are awesome and never feel regular, more awesome by having a Mariachi band follow us around town. That night was incredible, even the point where the Mariachi band was hunting me down and…

How To Make The Color Brown

Today I learned how to make the color brown, and then I sneezed all over my brother’s acrylic paints. Accidentally, of course, as these things happen. I was day dreaming, about the color brown and the sneeze crept like a cheetah that pounced all over his tubes of paints. The worst thing about sneezing on…