Tangier Having initially decided to skip the continent of Africa due to time and money constraints, I learned that I could easily jump down to Morocco from southern Spain, so I figured I had to at least test the proverbial waters of Africa. I’ll admit, the chance to add a sixth continent on the world …
Viva Espana
Madrid Madrid is freaking awesome. Despite once again wandering for an hour before finding my damn hostel, my time here was far less stressful. From the airport I arrived in the famous Plaza de la Sol in the center of the city and was immediately in love. In Spain, things are calm, laid back, sunny …
Culture Shock
I landed at the Cherleroi - Brussels airport, about an hour’s drive outside of the city (another little RyanAir head fake, as they don’t mention that the airports they fly are typically an hour or more further than the city’s “main” airport). Here I was picked up by Arend Jan, an awesome Dutch guy who …
A Year Without Going to the Gym
Today I completed 52 weeks of Mark Lauren’s fitness program, “You Are Your Own Gym.” In real time I actually started the program over a year ago - about 58 weeks. As described in detail on my fitness page, one highlight of Your Gym is all of the workouts are performed using bodyweight exercises - …
West, Toward California
...as I often like to say. Except I really couldn’t say it between New Zealand and Thailand, because California was really more east from there. Well, at any rate. I landed in London feeling slightly better after sleeping relatively comfortably through most of the nine-hour flight, where I was promptly introduced to the worst immigration …
Keeping India With Me
Having been staying in the accommodation directly across from the Mountain Cleaners office, I was the unofficial MC secretary by the time I left, taking messages, collecting donations, writing notes and directing potential volunteers. I could have gone full-time, which I think Tashi would have welcomed. Unfortunately though the world awaited and I had to …
Feeling Fear
Having decided to stay in India, I spent a few of the days following Triund kicking around in Dharamsala and deciding where I would go from there. I’d checked into the same guest house as Sunny, Baba, Raj and the rest of the guys and was enjoying being there. Since I had some more time …
Seek and Destroy
I woke up to another beautiful sunrise in MacLeodGanj. After breakfast and buying my bus ticket for the next day, I met up with the Mountain Cleaners. Also, check out this video to see a little more about what they do. I found the crew in the Bhagsu taxi stand/parking lot. Tashi, the Project Manager …
Exploring the Subcontinent
Thanks to Meera (and Shonali, who put me in touch with Meera and who checked in on me every day when I was sick!) I was finally back on my feet and it was time to get out of Delhi. After kicking around a few ideas, including calling Imran again, I decided to go to …
Agra: The Taj Mahal and a Religious Experience
Back at the Bombay Palace, I had been considering Imran’s package deal since the day before, but I finally decided to save the cheese and and give it a go on my own. To that end, San jib booked me a bus ride to Agra and back the following day to visit the Taj Mahal …
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