The good folks over at NileGuide have launched a new interview series with bloggers and “noteworthy travelers.” They saw fit to conduct their inaugural interview with me. I’m flattered that they asked me and was happy to oblige. So, what does that have to do with a cartoony avatar version of myself? Nothing. But I’ll [...]
On July 15, I rode from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Cloisters with David Farley (@davidfarley) and Robert Reid (@reidontravel). Armed with nothing more than our bikes, cameras and free time, we meandered our way uptown. We stopped to see some quirky sights, many of which you can see in my flickr gallery. But for [...]
I found an album in iPhoto this morning that I realized I never posted on Flickr. It contains 26 photos of beverages that I purchased exclusively from vending machines in Japan during a ten-day trip in May 2008. I had intended to make a giant poster featuring every photo. Then I realized that a poster [...]
Did you know that I write a weekly feature on Gadling called SkyMall Monday? Well, I do. Every week, I select a different asinine SkyMall product (redundancy alert) and review it. Shockingly, I’ve yet to have a hard time finding something on SkyMall to ridicule. But here’s the kicker: the catalog is amazing. It’s entertaining, [...]
Do you enjoy travel books? Do you enjoy dry humor? Do you enjoy tales of foreskin lore? Then I have a recommendation for you. David Farley’s new book, An Irreverent Curiosity, is a first-person account of the author’s investigation into the lost foreskin of Jesus. Yes, that Jesus. Farley spent more than a year in [...]
There’s simply no cool way to way to welcome someone to a website. I refuse to call this “my little corner of the internet.” The internet, of course, has no corners. So, what the hell is the point of this site? Well, I’ll be writing about travel, sharing interesting news and, above all, attempting to [...]
