You can learn a lot from travel. Always negotiate, hide some money in your shoe in case you get robbed and never trust an American hippie in a Hawaiian shirt walking a three-legged dog. I met the hippie a half an hour after I reached the island. I was looking for a hostel and he… Read More Adventures on Hippie Island: Part 2
A photo of my hostel, which is more like a hippie commune than an actual business. You can rent a hammock or sleep in a tent in the backyard and if you agree to paint a mural on one of the walls or pieces of furniture, you get to stay for free. Cool, huh? I’m… Read More Adventures on Hippie Island
“Leon” is lion in Spanish. It’s fitting, really, considering that this city is so hot it makes everyone in it feel like they’re being swallowed alive by a giant, concrete, killer cat. Leon wants me dead. Seriously. I’ve developed an eye infection in both eyes and yesterday I counted 52 bug bites…and those were just… Read More LEON, Tigers and Bears, Oh My
“Ahh! An ant is biting my eye!” Not exactly something you say every day, but every once in a while the situation calls for it. Like when you’re laying on a dock on a lake in the Guatemalan jungle and you feel something burrowing its fangs into the corner of your eyeball. “It’s not an… Read More Buggin’ Out in Guatemala
It’s been raining for three days straight now. And when I say that it’s been raining, I mean pouring so hard that some people’s houses are now underwater. I’m lucky that I live at the top of a hill, because our apartment has managed to escape most of the damage. But even so, our living… Read More A Volcano Erupted and Our House is Flooded
Yesterday I hiked four miles up an active volcano. In the pouring rain. And during a lighting storm. It was one of those experiences that you only appreciate after it’s all over and you’re back in the safety of your apartment; warm, dry, comfy in your pajamas and drinking a hot cup of tea. Because… Read More The Hike from Hell
I know you guys would probably prefer to hear about my (mis)adventures in Guatemala than about my trip to Hawaii, so I won’t bore you with the details of my middle school reunion or days spent at the beach. But I’m seriously considering moving back whenever I’m finished with Guatemala, so I figured that it was worth… Read More Six Days in Hawaii
View from the roof of my hostel in Antigua, Guatemela I haven’t even been in Guatemala for 24-hours and already I’ve been interrogated by the police. This morning my dormmate woke up, took a shower, ate breakfast and then announced to the youth hostel that he’d been robbed. “Someone stole my wallet,” he informed me… Read More My First Day in Guatemala
Waikiki Beach from Helicopter, Oahu, Hawaii by Cosmic_Kid99 Right now I’m sitting on the balcony of my parent’s Waikiki condo in Honolulu, Hawaii. And it’s absolutely beautiful here. I’ve just spent the last half hour typing and retyping this paragraph, trying to capture in words how gorgeous the view is, but everything that comes to… Read More Aloha from Hawaii
Salto by Pinchak A few months ago I took a workshop on “becoming friends with Death.” I know. Not the most pleasant of course topics, but I enrolled in the class because I considered it time Death and I developed a better relationship. You see, Death and I aren’t exactly buddies. Nope. The few times… Read More Death Defying