Today was the last trip through a strange place on my journey. Kom Obo, Egypt was another non-descript, poor, dusty, but still fascinating village I traveled through on my way back to civilization. I spent my last night on a felluca boat down the Nile...
Losing faith in human kindness is terrible to witness...
When in Nepal you are more or less expected to trek. Trekking is not mountaineering, where you use ropes ice axes and the like. Trekking is hiking along the thousands of trails in the Himalayas. Being of questionable physical prowess, I had decided most definitely...
I've been on the Yangon-Mandalay express train for fourteen hours and fifteen minutes. I suggest that a trip like this can, in fact, be taken with only two litres of water, seven polo mints, and a pack of Marlboro Lights as sustenance. I wouldn't suggest...
This is a story about state-of-the-art ship building, recycling, aquaculture, government's attempts to save a fragile ecology, and sustaining tourism: the last functioning economic flow in Indonesia. It started when I saw a curious dingy.One morning as I walked around an empty beach on the...