Month: July 2008

  • Please Help Me Find These Things

    Please Help Me Find These Things

    I am going crazy trying to find two very small pieces of gear that would make my life a whole lot easier. I can’t find any trace of them online, but I KNOW that they exist because I have had one of each at some point. The first one is an ingenious little chunk of…

  • A New Plan for Life Nomadic

    As our stack of plane tickets gets thinner and our passports get more and more inked up, we’ve started thinking about what we’re going to do next year. A repeat? Take some time off? Some combination? This sort of travel is self perpetuating. If I had ten places I really wanted to visit before leaving…

  • Why I Don’t Take Medicine

    Why I Don’t Take Medicine

    Why I Don’t Take Medicine I’m aware that admitting / proclaiming that I don’t take medicine sets me up to be bucketed in with the nutty religious people who handle snakes and let their kids die on rare occasions before allowing them to go to the hospital. That’s not me. My policy is to not…

  • Cambodia

    Cambodia

    When you’re on the road for this long you get good at rationing. In our case, that applies to batteries and to food. I just last week ate a vegan food bar that I bought in LA in the beginning of March. We don’t plan far ahead, so we never know exactly when we’ll be…