I spent the last week of my Vietnam vacation in a beach town called Nha Trang. While I was there, I rented a motorbike for a week. Right off the bat, I could tell that this thing had problems, however since it was a steal at 5 bucks a day, I couldn't resist. Anyways, to make a long story short ( Read more... )

One bad thing about traveling is that it seems like everyone you meet goes away. Almost like the world cannot committ to you. I sometimes forget that it's all my choice, my fault. And as much as it seems that people come and go without leaving a trace, they don't. That's always been a comforting feeling for me. It's like crumbling up a piece ( Read more... )

It's hard to brush your teeth and piss at the same time. I figured this out tonight. One hand is trying to hold it steady while the other is trying to scrape the plaque out of the hard to reach places of your gums. Electric toothbrush might work, but people with electric toothbrushes would probably never try stupid things like brushing their ( Read more... )

Dear Woman, I am not one side of a choice to choose from. I'm not the choice between the sweater and the blouse. One thing's for sure though, you can't have both. I can't stand for it. If you want me, here I am. Otherwise, I'd best be on my way. I'm not one for competition, games and bullshit. I've had enough of that in the past, and I'll be ( Read more... )

I spent two nights in what turned out to be the worst hotel I've ever been to. It was a budget place, the kind of place that they normally don't let foreigners go to. I'd just arrived in Changsha from Beijing. I was tired. I was wet. I was sick. I didn't feel like spending much money in the waiguoren hotels, so I found a place above a club on ( Read more... )

"Chuck Norris doesn't read books, he stares them down til he gets the information he wants." - ?

"I've never seen a homeless guy with a bottle of Gatorade." - George Carlin

You know something's wrong when you say one day that one girl could be the reason that you traveled halfway across the world to work. Well, what if I were to tell you I felt like traveling half way back because of another? Yep, thus seems to be the story of my life. I won't actually do this of course, but let me explain. I've got issues when it ( Read more... )

I'd only be half-lying if I said I didn't travel to the other side of the world to see a girl I was in love with. But then again, why do we do half the crazy things that we do? Can you think back to the last thing that you did that ended up completely changing your life forever? More likely than not, it was probably something that happened due ( Read more... )

It was like a warzone. I stood on the roof of a bar in Sanlitun, downtown Beijing, and watched as literally millions of fireworks exploded all over the city; some in front of buildings, some behind them, in all directions. I closed my eyes and it sounded like an ambush scene from a war movie. Unbelievable. This went on all night long. This ( Read more... )

Everyone should read this great book! It's amazing! The author is merely a retired submarine commander from Minnesota who had a fascination with reading old maps and charts. Low and behold, he found old maps before the time of Columbus that indicated that many parts of the world, including Australia, Antarctica, America, the Arctic, once thought ( Read more... )