Nagging advertisements on my YouTube screen to sign up for Gaia – a spiritual Netflix of sorts – finally overwhelmed my resistance during last year’s lockdown and I plunged myself in several chakras deep. The first morsel on my TV … Continue reading Do We Die For Good?
What a weird time to be alive. For me, the timing of this pandemic hitting is both poor and not-so-poor. I took 2 months off to travel around the South Island of New Zealand and to think about my life … Continue reading Self-love In The Time of Corona (Eight Tips)
She stood silhouetted in the downpour, gazing out at the droplets as they fell to their fate in the silken sea at Kina Bay. I’d like to call it destiny, but frankly she was just the only other person crazy … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 4: Mary and the Marvelous Mobile Apothecary
I was in Trelew, a city on Argentina’s east coast and a bizarre experience with a truck driver had left me in two minds about hitching west across the country to the Chilean border. To be fair, I’d been scared … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 3: Lost in Translation
The white Patagonian sun bears down on me through the glass. Picking at my empanada, I lift my gaze again to where the truck drivers are refueling outside. Sparse nothingness extends out from the gas station for the hundreds … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide Part 2: Out of The Mouths of Gramps
Part One: One Eyed Jack Hitching just isn’t as popular anymore. At least it feels that way as I stand on the side of the road out of Greymouth; thumb out, grin manic and eyes ever-so-pleading as cars continue to … Continue reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Down Under – Case Studies from New Zealand and Argentina
I excused myself from the Sadhu’s tent and walked out into the starry night. As I left, the entrance flaps flew in a fresh gust of wind and I shuddered. Not from the cold. But with a vague sensation of … Continue reading Watching the Bodies Burn in Varanasi, India
The alternating red and blue brings Nick’s features into relief and I see my tepid fear in his eyes Our young driver had pulled a shirt over his head and scrambled out of the car to the rear where three … Continue reading Hitchhiking, Drugs and a Love Motel: A São Paulo Story
My guide to super-gluing boots, soiling oneself, and finding villages in the dark (Part 1) “Do you get scared when travelling alone?” “Not really” I lie. “Why’s that?” “Whenever I sleep alone at Uncle’s hostel in Pokhara, I close all the … Continue reading How to Solo Trek in Nepal (With a Little Help From my Friends)
Ooh that’s sticky. I was dimly aware of the relief I felt as I stepped out of the airport into a wave of Bangkok’s heat; all doubt as to whether I should be travelling swept aside. My life in my … Continue reading Enlightened Neurotic: My Temple Stay in Daen Maha Mongkol
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