After one night in Managua we hopped a chicken bus down to the colonial town of Granada on the shores of Lago Nicaragua.
Every summer my family rents a boat and goes sailing. You can read about it on luxagraf.
Went out to LA for two weeks at the beginning of July. Saw some friends and went sailing with my family.
I was working one afternoon in May when I noticed an email from a mailing list I subscribe to that claimed $12 flights to New York. As it turns out …
I get restless being in the same place for too long. After about a month in Athens a friend invited me up to visit her in Charleston SC. You can …
After nine months abroad I went out to Los Angeles for a while to visit with friends and family. I ended up staying about eight months. There are some images …
Back in Paris, returning full circle. From the luxagraf entry entitled Cadenza: "And now. Now I can see my reflection slighted in the window. I am haggard, tired, my …
Vienna is a strange city; one I had trouble wrapping my head around at first. The old town area lies inside the Ringstraße. The Ringstraße is a wide circular boulevard …
I’ll be honest, I was a little disappointed by Prague. I liked it; I had a good time in Prague, but I don’t know that I would go out of …
Cesky Krumlov is a small Czech town nestled on a dramatic bend in the Vltava River. Like any European city worth its salt, it has a dramatic castle on a …
We spent a couple of nights in Salzburg and wandered the castle area as well as the old town square. We ate in old of the oldest restaurants in Europe …
Actually most of these are outside of Bled in the Julian Alps… There is a roughly 200km loop of road that leads northwest out of Bled, through a pass in …
We were only in Ljubjana for two days, but it’s still one of my favorite cities in Europe.
Like Dubrovnik, Trogir was a walled city of roughly Venetian vintage, but Trogir’s wall has largely crumbled away or been removed, though I know not how or why. Still it …
Seaside town near the southern end of Croatia. A walled trading city whose origins can be traced as far back as the 7th century and variously controlled by the Byzantines, …
National Park in the mountains of Croatia famed for it’s rivers and lakes. Also saw the first shots fired in the Baltic conflict. It’s hard to understand, standing on the …
From London to Budapest where I am ostensibly from, though after having been there and seen the people, I’m not sure I buy that. Or I picked up some weird …
I’ll tell you what culture shock is, being able to understand conversations around you for the first time in eight month. Freaked me out at first. Then I met up …
In which I head to south Thailand with a brief stop at the world famous Phi Phi islands. I also met up with some friend from the state on holiday …
A beach party town. Fun, but not very Cambodian. This is where I said goodbye to Debi who I traveled with for two months and Rob and Jules who spent …
From the beach we headed up into the hills to an abandoned hill station once home to the king’s summer getaway and a lavish casino until they were destroyed by …
After three days of Templing in Angkor we were spent. We joined forces with Rob and Jules and headed back down to Phnom Penh for a day. The next morning, …
Angkor Wat. At some point during the four days I was in Seam Reap I emailed on of my friends the following, which she found utterly hilarious: “I can honestly …
After the Floating Village we made our way up to Battambang to check out the Bamboo railway. Cambodia still hasn’t fully recovered from the Khmer Rouge, transportation in particular is …