After meeting a Swiss devotee of the game and playing a mad number of times in Indonesia’s Togean Islands, the Swiss girl (and so her board game) left town. Within one day, we had made a bootleg version so we could continue playing. Just a few days later, Greg and […]
Tag: Travel Tips
Cheap Travel: Frequent Flier Points
Getting the most out of frequent flier points. – or – How I snagged over $4000 in airline tickets for only $427. I’m usually not one to plan too far in advance when traveling, but thanks to a (formerly) healthy stash of frequent flier miles and a lot of […]
Wind Horses in Flight
In Tibetan Buddhist culture, prayer flags are an ever-present reminder of religiosity in the course of day-to-day affairs. In every instance of this cultural background that I’ve seen, from the far north of Mongolia and south to the Himalayas of Nepal, I’d seen prayer flags fluttering everywhere but never made […]
Realities of Traveling in Tibet
I’ll readily admit that I had this whole fantasy built around the idea of Tibet, the way so many liberal-leaning Westerners seem to. I had also been living in China for nearly a year before I went to Tibet, so I had a pretty realistic view of the Chinese position […]
Packing for Travel
Aside from budgetary concerns, another issue that seems to come up regularly is how once can carry enough “stuff” to last for months of traveling. I had actually promised my aunt, who talks about coming to travel with me for a month later in the year, that at some point […]
Budget: Moldova
Moldova actually felt a bit pricier than Ukraine, though looking at this it overall shouldn’t have been. Though I couchsurfed for all but the first night (because nobody wants to receive a guest at 4am), there was a pretty nice hostel in Chishinau for 100 Lei/ night. I’m told that […]
Hey there! I'm Stephen, this is my travel blog, and that's me in the poofy hat.
I'm a photographer / writer traveling since 2008, and I've been doing my best to visit amazing places.
My current focus is Central Asia, because for a hiking and camping enthusiast it's as good as it gets.