Venice is nowhere near as smelly as people told me it would be. It is, however, exactly as confusing as it was rumored to be. You will get […]
Gear / PSA
Worth the wait! (Ihope…)
So, following a small acciden in September, my laptop has been a glorified paperweight. It is now in the repair shop in Rome that *may* be able to […]
Albania / Europe
Scotty and Berat, Albania: A winning combination
Berat: Always a good choice. The ride to Berat was billed at 2 hours, though with stopping and picking up every straggler on the side of the road, […]
Albania / Europe
Tirana, Albania: a city worth passing through
Tirana at 4 a.m. isn’t the most beautiful or friendly place. If you have the good fortune of meeting the only Muslim breakdancers in Albania, though, it may […]
Europe
To Albania. From Turkey.
Weeks ago I met a woman in Belgrade, named Debbie. According to her friends, she is perhaps the most well traveled woman I have ever met. Not just […]
Europe / Turkey
Arafta bir yabancı: my Turkish life
Araf means: limbo… between life and dead where you can’t be alive or dead and you can’t touch either of them. Arafta bir yabancı means ‘a stranger in […]
Bulgaria / Europe
Bulgaria. Sort of.
After I left Sofia, i made it to a couple other cities on my trip to Istanbul. This is not a completely accurate portrayal of Bulgaria, simply my […]
Europe / Serbia
Sofia, Bulgaria: Pass.
My new friend Will and I spent considerable time trying to come up with a better, more accurate, and still positive description of Sofia after being here for […]
Europe / Serbia
Belgrade, Serbia: bring a ladder.
Belgrade looks like a fully functioning war zone. There are still bombed out building scattered around the city, but people are well dressed, smiling, and going about their […]
Europe / Hungary
Boodapesht
Nothing will ever taste as sweet as Hungarian blackberries. I would never have known this had I not made the trip. The train ride from Bratislava to Budapest […]