But in the past year, a whispering prod from somewhere deep and honest has been asking me to take stock of who I really am and what I really want from—you know—life. While infatuation can rumble in like a like an elephant in steel boots playing Dance Dance Revolution, romance has a much coyer way…
There are moments in the playing of music when melodies mix with blurred meanings and seem to extend beyond you and your guitar. There are people you meet in offbeat places that create not just lasting friendships, but enduring, revelation strewn growth. In my experience these people drink Cuba libres and even after four nights…
Scroll down to the bottom to find out about how you can win stuff 2:12pm: I’ve just finished a run up a mountain, ate a bean sandwich, slayed a dragon fruit, cleaned up my messes and at the moment I’m still in running attire, smoking a cigarette, listening to Kids on the Run by The…
Travel is a mentality. 19 hours in an overnight bus begins as they tend to in Central America,my 11:30pm bus out of Guatemala City is cancelled and my departure time is moved to 4am. There are unforeseen delays, inexplicable and at no point, not even at a change of bus in El Salvador, am I given a physical…
I think the best years of your life are any years where you are singing that song of yourself to a choir of friends all singing their own in harmony with yours. Are The Best Years of Your Life are Over? We were just about to touch down in Guatemala and it was time to…
It is not uncommon for avid travelers to meet on the road. Since for many a love of travel is a prerequisite, meeting a fellow traveler on a trip assures at least that much in common. But travelers Lisa Niver Rajna and George Rajna’s lover affair did not begin in some far-flung, romantic destination. Like…
I booked a flight to New York using Webjet and now I want to stand up and sing. It is a great travesty that I cannot stand up on my seat and belt out in my baritone, “The hills are alive with the sound of music!” Oh believe me, I want to. And I would. Every ounce of organ feels…
If we stop following our hearts, we are lost. There is something sacred in the cosmic cycles unfolding around us. They are the constants to the many variables of our lives and the basis for our own biological and social cycles. I’ve always been a New Years guy, love New Years resolutions, and get charged at…
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…
Happiness is an end to which many roads lead. From the air it seems like New York’s skyscrapers reach towards you, each a unique, wizened individual with stoic stories to share. The mirror of The Hudson is pretending to be a sunset—saturated rose hues that rise to the occasion as if they knew the wringing…
