At the Zombie Apocalypse Store, you can buy everything you need to survive the end of the world; from freeze-dried scrambled eggs and water-filters to wind-up flashlights and stun guns disguised as cell phones. Oh, and you also can buy a variety of swords, throwing knives, ninja stars and tomahawks…just in case, ya know, you… Read More The Zombie Apocalypse Store in Las Vegas: It’s to Die for
Museums aren’t in plentiful supply here in Las Vegas; and the one’s that do exist are odd to say the least (like The Atomic Testing Museum, for example, The Exotic Heritage or the recently closed ‘Liberace Museum’). The Pinball Hall of Fame is no exception. The name can be misleading because the Pinball Hall of… Read More Child’s Play: Cheap Fun at Vegas’s Pinball Hall of Fame
In Sin city, anything goes. Drinking in public, prostitution, gambling, smoking in bars and ferrets. Wait, what? Ferrets? Yep, you may not know this but in addition to relaxed social norms in relation to public intoxication, Nevada is also one of only 20 states that allows people to buy and sell exotic animals. Though owning… Read More Monkeying Around at an Exotic Pet Shop in Vegas
This past Memorial Day Weekend, I went camping at the Grand Canyon with a random German backpacker I’d friended online and a group of people I met through a local camping club. While I was a little apprehensive about spending a long weekend in the woods with a group of people I’d never met in… Read More My Adventures at the Grand Canyon
Before Nicaragua or Guatemala, before I got a job with an airline or lived in Japan and before this blog existed or I even knew what the word ‘blog’ meant, there was India. And the four months I spent hauling my sweaty self up and down mountains and away from stampeding elephants and spitting camels.… Read More Big News: I Have My Own Column!
I’m in Costa Rica right now and am scheduled to fly back to California tomorrow. But I might not be there for long. I got offered a job as a volunteer coordinator for a Canadian NGO in Nicaragua. The pay is decent and the job provides free room and board and get this, free Spanish… Read More So long Nicaragua….See Ya Soon?
My roommates and I referred to Tikal (the official name for the Mayan ruins) as “McMaya World” because by the end of our day there, the park was so crowded you had to wait in line for a chance to climb up the ruins. The site had guards, flush toilets and snack shacks that sold… Read More McMaya World
My roommate shrugged and then said the line that we use so often here it’s practically become our life motto: “Well, that’s Guatemala…” Tweet
I love the graffiti art here. While it may never compete with the graffiti in Brazil, it’s still fun to look at. Here are some photos I took of the graffiti around my neighborhood in Xela. What do you think? And which cities or countries do you think have the best graffiti? Want to see… Read More Graffiti Art in Guatemala
I’ve moved apartments and relocated to a new city, but that hasn’t stopped the bugs from tracking me down. Somehow they’ve all gotten wind of my change of address and have been showing up in droves in the last few days. You may remember the last surprise visitor that crawled into bed with me. Well,… Read More Yet Another Surprise Visitor