Hi all. What’s new? Me? Well, I tweaked my neck lunging for a high toss while I was juggling last night and I’m still somehow jetlagged a week after returning home to Minneapolis which is probably a sign from God that I should drink more cider before bed. If you’ve…

Just a reminder that I’m not here all week, rather I’m posting over at Gadling. The first of several posts about my recent road trip through Transylvania just went live. A new one will appear every day this week at approximately 10am EST. Profuse, reverential comments welcome as always.

Folks, my deluge of Romania travel posts on Gadling.com has begun today with this post. Again, I should be posting 3-5 times a week for the next four weeks or so. Set your feeds accordingly and leave a ton of comments so the other writers feel unpopular and wretchedly envy.

Five weeks has zapped by with alarming quickness here at Killing Batteries, Minneapolis Edition. So fast that I’m still three pounds short of my goal to gain eight pounds while home. And not for lack of trying. Don’t get me wrong, I love seeing my friends and family and riding…

(Or would that be ‘doofi’?) I have a dirty little secret. Every time I fly in or out of Italy or Romania, I’m scared shitless. Actually, when I fly into either of these countries, I’m merely very concerned that I won’t see my luggage for a week. Inconvenient, yes, but…

Well, it’s been a bizarre and roundly disagreeable week here at Killing Batteries, Minneapolis Edition. To start on a lighter note, I was finally forced to address a, erm, ‘condition’, that presented itself virtually the day after I arrived in the US. Since the US is the only country in…

Friends/LP editors/groupies, I’m happy to announce that I submitted the last of my Tuscany work for two different LP books (Tuscany and Umbria 5 and Italy 8, both due in stores February 2008) last Tuesday, 10 full days before deadline. Now I don’t wanna brag or anything, but WHO’S YOUR…

You are never gonna guess where I am right now. Bonus smartass creativity points for anyone who thought “The Home for Disturbed Travel Writers with Bad Breath? Finally?” In truth, at this moment, I am technically in Arlington, Virginia, but for the past three days I have been crisscrossing my…

I’m shameless about a lot of stuff, but there are only three things that I’m so shameless about that if it weren’t me doing whatever it was, I’d pants me just to teach me a lesson. Those three things are: – Self-promotion – Abusing any opportunity for free booze –…

I’ve been back from Malta for like three days, but its really only been about 12 minutes when you take out the waking hours that I’ve been entrenched in frenzied catch-up work. Apart from one indulgent shower and a run to the market in the next village because all I…