I’m not sure what “DHL” stands for, but I think it could be “Deliveries? Haha, Lol”, at least based on my experience trying to receive an international DHL passport delivery. Since 1969, DHL has been moving packages from Point A to point B, presumably with some success since they’re the largest logistics company in the…
When in South Korea, we went on a tour of the DMZ between South and North Korea. Here’s what happened. “We will go soon into tunner,” she said. “When you go to inside tunner, make sure to listen instructions carefully, other you will have problem. You wear heavy hat for banging. You have to be safety in the tunner…
Today I’m going to talk about how to use buses in Japan. It might not sound like it, but it’s going to be a hoot. Unless your name is Sir Nicolas Double-Barreled Pompington you’ve probably used a bus at least once or twice in your life. You probably think that the bus pulls up to…
When we were in Tokyo, we took five hours’ worth of trains and buses and hikes to see snow monkeys in Nagano. To be more specific, we were at Jigokudani Monkey Park, where we spent about three hours looking at animals, before taking five hours’ worth of hikes and buses and trains back to Tokyo….
This is a post about a wild experience in a capsule hotel in Tokyo. I spent a night in a Tokyo capsule hotel room that was orders of magnitude smaller than your average prison cell. It also involved me seeing more Japanese penis than I would have liked. I was not coerced into this. I…
This is an account of a cockfight in Manila, in the Philippines. Before I start, a trigger warning: cockfights in Manila are not for the faint of heart. Animals get seriously hurt and killed and I absolutely do not condone the sport. And giving money to see them makes me feel guilty, but it’s also…
We stayed in our first Airbnb in Mexico City. It was great. We stayed in our second Airbnb in Cancun. It was…less great. Story time! Once upon a time, there was a farm boy called Jack who traded his cattle for a handful of magic beans. Sorry, wrong story. Our story today starts outside an apartment…
Starfish and sloths are two killer reasons why you should visit Bocas del Toro, Panama. Here’s my experience. I stopped by Panama en-route to Bogotá, Colombia. My first impression of Panama City was that it was blander than a pancake without maple syrup so I jumped on a domestic plane about the size of a…
If I had a bucket list, it would include getting a tattoo, snorting cocaine off somebody’s stomach, and setting up a business renting pets by the month for people who aren’t actually sure yet whether they want a dog shitting on their carpet. One thing my bucket list definitely wouldn’t include is roasting marshmallows with an Amish lady…
Here’s what you need to know about Bogotá, Colombia. The city is 2640 meters (8300 feet) above sea level. This means you arrive and get headaches, sniffles, nosebleeds, and you suddenly can’t walk up ten stairs without wheezing like a fat kid with asthma forced to run the 100m at school sports day. It takes…