[This story is based on my very brief visit to Cook, Australia in December 2004.] For a moment, I am utterly alone in Cook, Australia and it’s a little eerie. Effectively a modern ghost town, Cook looks like it was very recently wiped out in a post-apocalyptic bandit raid. Like…

[This post is based on my experience during my first trip to Mandalay, Myanmar in 2005. I went a second time in 2008.] As I was shoveling down yet another accidentally extravagant breakfast in Mandalay, Myanmar, due to a communications mishap with the server, two trishaw (bike taxi) drivers sat…

[From my travelogue archives, the re-mastered account of my visit with questionably sane long distance unicyclists touring Norway’s Arctic Circle region in June 2003.] Stupefied disbelief mixed with moderate alarm. That’s typically how people reacted when I explained my race to the Arctic Circle to intercept a group of audacious…

[From my travelogue archives, the re-mastered account of my visit to Bangkok’s Pat Pong district in March of 2005.] The mild to stern warnings issued by travelogues, a variety of barstool neighbors and my Lonely Planet ultimately did not do complete justice to Pat Pong, Bangkok’s formerly notorious, now verily…

[From my travelogue archives, the re-mastered and absurdified confession of how I patronized a Hard Rock Cafe twice in the same week while suffering an epic hamburger craving in Lisbon, Portugal in the fall of 2003.] Forgive me Father for I have sinned. It has been never since my last…

Welcome to the fourth installment of the “Worst travel writing jobs” series. This doozy is so doozicable that I could write 500 words on the absurdity of the title alone, but it gets better. Write 3000 unique articles on Travel, Entertainment, Beauty and Shopping topics Only 3000? Because I was…

[You know about Long Reads, right? Well, this is the Longest Read – in the history of my blog. From my travelogue archives, an edited and re-mastered account of my 78 hour bus ride from southwest Spain to northeast Romania in June 2004.] The build up Some travel elitists will…

[Disclaimer: This might not be the worst hostel in Europe. I can’t be sure since I haven’t stayed at every hostel in Europe. But it was without question a strong contender when I stayed here in October 2003 and, as with any situation involving unusual discomfort and personal injustice, it…

Welcome to the third installment of the “worst travel writing jobs” series. This is not a travel writing job, but it popped up on my travel writing job search the other day and it was so breathtakingly shameful that I couldn’t resist mocking it. Single Female Executive Assistant Off to…

Welcome to the second installment of my new series “worst travel writing jobs,” where I basically write a bunch of droll, cheap-shot comments in response to terrible travel writer job postings, which, incidentally, is super easy and takes only a fraction of the time of writing a proper blog post!…