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Quick Thought: 07/04/08

Lonely Planet Nicaragua is so damn inaccurate it stopped being funny two weeks ago.

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You Can’t Go Home Again 06/30/08

The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, to a steady 20-25 knot blow as if Zephuros himself were paying a visit to the island. …

Casa Iguana Guesthouse – Little Corn Island, Nicaragua • Topics: Goodbyes, Islands, Weather

Returning Again — Back on Little … 06/26/08

This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of …

Casa Iguana Guesthouse – Little Corn Island, Nicaragua • Topics: Humor, Strikes, Weather

Quick Thought: 06/24/08

Got married, back in Nicaragua for the honeymoon…

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We´re Married 06/21/08

Corrinne and I were married last Saturday, June 21. Our wedding was pretty informal — the ceremony and after-party were in our backyard — and while we may have skipped on some conventional wedding things, hopefully everyone had as much …

Quick Thought: 06/19/08

Note to self: You just can’t mix beer and wine like you could when you were twenty-five.

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Quick Thought: 06/18/08

Dinner with the soon-to-be inlaws and my parents went surprisingly well.

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Universal Traveller 06/18/08

This is about the thinnest thread I’ve ever heard of, but World Hum recently printed a piece called 10 Wanderlust-Inducing Summer Concerts. The idea being that the music is supposed to transport you somehow… like you hear the songs and …

Topics: Music, Travel

The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala 06/13/08

Airfare by the Pound: ‘Just Like Ground… 06/12/08

Steven Colbert has a hilarious take on one way the airline industry could deal with increased fuel costs, charge passengers by the pound — “just like ground round.” As Colbert puts it, “you know, who better to dish out the …

Topics: Humor, Travel

Cross-Fade Anything (This Time For Real… 06/10/08

Top Tourist Spots Americans Can’t Visit… 06/10/08

That’s the title of a list over on ForeignPolicy.com. I know, sounds like a thrilling site doesn’t it? Don’t worry, I made the trip over to Foreign Policy and here’s the list (which is almost entirely wrong): Mount Kumgang North …

Topics: Politics, Travel

Is The Internet Ruining Travel? 06/09/08

The answer is of course, yes and no. There was an interesting article, and subsequent discussion in the comments, over at the Times Online this weekend, in which a number of prominent British travel writers lamented the internet’s influence on …

Topics: Technology, Travel

Cross-Fade Anything 06/09/08

Quick Thought: 06/08/08

Holy crap. 102 degrees in June? It’s gonna be an ugly summer. Good thing we’re headed down to the equator where it’s cooler.

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In Love With a View: Vagabonds,
R… 06/07/08

Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips in the article, even for the seasoned travel vet. But what’s far more fascinating is the response …

Cloverhurst – Athens, Georgia • Topics: Politics, Travel

Quick Thought: 06/05/08

@howards- Yeah RSS feeds on Webmonkey and the blog are a bit shaky right now. The techs say a fix is coming though so hopefully…

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Quick Thought: 06/05/08

Hey snotty hipster I talked to earlier today: Sorry, but the new Gnarls Barley and R.E.M. albums are way better than your 60’s English f …

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Déjà Vu 06/04/08

I ran across this passage in a book1 recently: The Marines were unable to suppress ________’s rebellion, and as months and years passed they began to despair of ever defeating him. In the United States the economy was collapsing into …

Topics: History

Rick Steves Goes to Iran 06/01/08

Rick Steves, the lovable goofball author of the travel book your parents will be taking to Europe this summer is making a television special on Iran. I have never found his guidebooks to be particularly helpful (to be fair, they’re …

Topics: Politics, Travel