I was surprised to discover that New York isn’t expensive—for food. Even in Manhattan it isn’t hard to find big pizza slices for a dollar, or dollar cups of coffee. Of course, you can easily pay through the roof, but … Continue reading
The Dromomaniac
While waiting for my flight I heard the magic words in an announcement: “We are looking for volunteers to take a later flight as this flight has been oversold” or however they put it, as they no longer say the … Continue reading
On the Money, Credit Cards and Insurance page of my website (did you know I have a website? It’s pretty informative. Have a look!) a company wants to pay me $120 just to insert some of their text in the … Continue reading
One of these decades I am going to do a redesign of my unwieldy website and I will have a link on the main page for the Top 5 blog posts as voted on by The Academy. If you are … Continue reading
It’s been a slow week. … Continue reading
It’s good to be home, to feel myself again. … Continue reading
I left home six months ago today. And, somewhat ironically, I am announcing that I bought a ticket yesterday to fly to San Francisco tomorrow, so change your lives accordingly. (For you cheap-ticket geeks: I am using my United frequent … Continue reading
You see everything in life when you stick your thumb out on the road, including things you don’t want to be a part of. The other day a Sri Lankan family picked me up. I noticed two kids in the … Continue reading
Switzerland is the United Nations of hitchhiking. No two nationalities in a row pick me up, it feels. The drivers went from a Swiss to a American to a Lebanese guy who royally screwed me over by leaving me in … Continue reading
