Archive for the 'travel' Category

So Long People of Earth

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Well, that’d be cool wouldn’t it? If I was heading off on some intergalactic adventure. Fantasies aside, I’m headed to Europe, with Magnapop, for a couple of weeks. If you’re nearby…yo- check it!
Tuesday August 7
HAMBURG, DE
Molotow club
Wednesday August 8
JOURE, NL
Café de Stam club
Free show !
Thursday August 9
ZICHEM, BE
Den Hemel club
Friday August 10
LOKEREN, BE
Fonnefeesten festival
Saturday, August [...]

The State of Discount Airtravel

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

So planning for a European jaunt this summer I did a little research and found some decent discount airfare sites. It had been a while since I really searched for some new ones. While there are a few discount international deals, there’s nothing like RyanAir or EasyJet in Europe. Orbitz, Travelocity and Expedia suck, [...]

Free Rides Government

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Traveling through Greece years ago, I met a Swede who spent his summers partying on the Greek Isles…funded by his government’s unemployment program. What was his disability, you wonder? Like every young and able bodied man, it was simply not wanting to work. So he snookered the system and collected his dough, came to Greece [...]

Confessions of a Junkie

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

While I am back and allegedly “functioning” as per normal, doing all the day to day things (way, way too many things), this trip has massively stimulated the ancient appetites within me for long-term non-agenda traveling, mostly for the undeniably important serendipity achieved in such loose adventures, the consistent and worthy diversion, and certainly [...]

San Miguel Block Party

Monday, October 2nd, 2006

Back blogging here…
Final day in Santo Domingo (09/30) and after going out to the Bateyes to visit The Batey Relief Alliance’s Medical center, I got back to the Zona Colonial and wandered up to San Miguel fiesta where a block party was indeed well under way. Slice of life action here and exactly the [...]

The Scooter Diaries

Thursday, September 28th, 2006

So last Tuesday, after recovering from the bike ride (solid 11 hour sleep) I was ready to resume my destiny with kitesurfing lessons, only it wasn´t very windy in the morning. At noon I met with Natalie and she thought it wasn´t such a great day and we should wait to see if the wind [...]

Kite Zen

Sunday, September 17th, 2006

Cabarete is a two-wheeled motoconch rice burner of a beach town complete with large expat population, intermittent blackouts, and every adventure excursion imaginable. You want to be on the beach to avoid the noxious engine fumes of carretera 5.
Took a walk along the beach after arriving hoping for a precious me moment of surfy-starry silence, [...]

Gua-gua

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

Shout outs to the British dude that convinced me to take the gua-gua (and explained how easy it was since everything is on carretera 5) instead of the taxi from Puerta Plata, and the sweet little Senora that told me when to get off. I don’t think anyone else would have. For the uninitiated, the [...]

Zona Colonial

Saturday, September 16th, 2006

The Zona Colonial tour started out at Parque Colon, where the somewhat “official” hordes of dudes with lamenated “badges” befriend you and then farm you off to who might be the most appropriate underling for the tour. I got Rodolpho, a 40 something dude in a tucked tie-dye, and the choice somewhat dismayed me, since [...]

Hasta Luego

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

Leaving for the Dominican Republic tomorrow to visit and do photography for The Batey Relief Alliance, and then mountain bike, and lie on a beach somewhere with a coconut, before doing some hurricane wrangling. Yeah, it’s the latest X-treme Adventure sport. Be back in a couple of weeks. The DR is close to [...]