Guest post by tour companion and friend, Tom Hoy I am hungry and tired. I have been hungry and tired for the better part of the last two weeks. When you’re on the road these states of being are constants. Food and sleep always come, but never regularly, and almost never to your total satisfaction.…
“A guy like you needs a beard then, to protect yourself from the cold,” he said, and in that moment we became best friends. A Day in Granada Nicaragua “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” was written like a lonely commandment above my bed at The Backyard Hostel…
I’m on my laptop, on the Internet in a car named Da Rio for Real. We are passing Hebron, ND, exit 102. Snow spattered fields are rolling by under a big ‘ol blue sky swept clean of clouds. Technology is amazing and I doubt I’ll ever ceased to be awed. Our generation might be the last…
If I were the queen of the nest of hornets that lives in my parents’ roof, I would have sent the wasps all at once. I think they would have had better odds, whatever their plan. As it was, the wasps came today one at a kamikaze time, flying into the open window to a…
