Not so many years ago I would not drink beer at all. I eventually started drinking Guinness and other similar dark beers. I came to enjoy them greatly, but would drink nothing else. Now that I am on the road traveling I will drink almost any beer. The reason? Beer seems to be a nearly . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: The (Almost) Universal Constant
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A lot of people I talk to do not believe there is adventure left in this world. The world has been explored, one cannot leave the edge of the map. With the internet the world has become known. Google images allows us to see any place in the world. Wikipedia allows us to learn about . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Thoughts On Adventure Sometimes it is the small things that are the most memorable. On cold night high in the mountains of Colombia the blankets on the bed are heavy and piled high. This reminds me of a cold and snowy winter night in Colorado, though I am in a city that may never have seen snow. In . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: The Small Things After a month of ever increasing pressure to reach the Stahlratte on 30 January 2012, I finally get to travel again as I prefer: No deadlines, no schedules. A continent to explore and weather is my only limitation. It is amazing how relaxing and invigorating it is to be free again! . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Free Again! Homeless. A bad word back home. It brings up visions of scruffy people living on the street, begging for coins, and best avoided when possible. Yet I am now accurately described as being homeless myself, a condition I worked hard to achieve. It is even a matter of pride, for me and for others who . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Happily Homeless When I left on this trip I decided to allow myself exactly one luxury item: my fiddle. Everything else has a practical justification related to the trip which far outweighs any purely personal momentary enjoyment. Now that I’ve been on the road more than half a year, I am no longer certain the fiddle quite . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Luxuries Learning Spanish has been an interesting process. I have made rapid progress, but it has really highlighted just how strange the brain can be at times. Take, for example, a very common situation where I am trying to understand a conversation between two people. What happens internally in my brain goes something like this…. Person . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Learning Spanish The reality of my route as I travel is turning out to be drastically different than my planning. This doesn’t concern me, but it does mean some changes in where I will go and what I will see. I am clearly traveling far slower than I imagined possible. Leaving mid-June I thought I would be . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Planning vs Reality As I travel through the country visiting places I realize, again, I am not the same person as when I left. I am almost completely out of touch with current events and have found I don’t really mind. Instead I focus on what is around me. The road I’m traveling and the people I meet . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: A Stranger In My Own Land For your daily amusement at my expense: I have a tendency to leave my sunglasses behind after putting on my helmet. I’m getting better at not forgetting them but I still almost loose them once every week or two. It isn’t that they are all that expensive, they are just cheap wrap-around non-prescription sunglasses but . . . → Read More: Life On The Road: Remembering The Sunglasses |
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