Oops! Wrong Country: Watching the World Cup in a Bolivian Gutter
Rejected at the border on a pilgrimage to the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, I end up in the Bolivian Amazon basin, frantically searching for a TV to watch my beloved Socceroos.
Surviving San Francisco: Absinthe, Haight-Ashbury, and D.J. Lebowitz
Wandering drunk around San Francisco can find one in situations more surreal than fiction, more absurd than socialist policy.
The Being and Nothingness of the Darién Gap
Dividing the Americas, the Darién Gap has long been considered a fortified abyss. However, amid the darkness, lies an promise rich in spiritual ascendance.
Backpackers Will Steal Your Milk and Poets Will Steal Your Coke
Uruguay’s Cabo Polonio is both a stunning hellhole and a hideous wonderland, rife with thieves, drugs, poets, and hippy backpackers just aching to steal your milk.
Beauty and Ruin: The Exquisite Tragedy of Philadelphia
The beautiful juxtaposition of Philadelphia is reminiscent of a Greek tragedy filled with love and hate, danger and safety, and beauty and ruin.