We were couchsurfing in Petra, Jordan, like every other place on the trip. The difference in Petra was that we were couchsurfing with a Bedouin guy. A terrifying Bedouin. Ghassab was tall, muscled, had dreadlocks, and was really serious all of the time. He didn’t laugh or smile once, no matter what you said, and…
Getting back from Santa Ana volcano to the city could have been a case of hopping on a bus. Instead the Salvadoran police almost killed us and we hitchhiked and got a ride in the back of a local’s truck. Here’s how to get from Santa Ana volcano to Santa Ana. Story time! To read…
Death Road in Bolivia is one of the most dangerous roads in the world, and the day we cycled down it was also the last day I’d ever see any of my traveling companies. But since this is a comedy travel writing site, I’ll try and keep it light, informative and funny. Why is it…
As part of a work trip, I went snowmobiling in Finland. More accurately, it was listed as a “secret activity”, but one of our hosts had to pull out and was replaced by someone else from the office who asked, as soon as we got in the van, “So, have any of you been snowmobiling…
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…
If I get a ticket from place A to place B from a bus station, I expect the entirety of that journey to be made by bus. So when I bought a bus ticket in Peru from Puno to Cusco, I was expecting to heave my rucksack onto a bus, then curl up in my…
I spent a month backpacking from Peru to Argentina, and for a brief time I was stuck in the middle of nowhere in Bolivia. Story time! Bolivia generally isn’t known for its elegant, efficient highways and state of the art road traffic management systems. If you take a second out of your day to picture…