February 2019, on a walking tour in the main market square in Kraków, Poland, I saw The Eros Bendato by Igor Mitoraj. Also, and most importantly, I saw a kid lick a trash bin in the middle of market square. The mom yelled. I laughed. The group laughed. The kid was confused and proceeded to […]
Who doesn’t? And up until this year (I am in my mid 30’s), I thought they were Australian. They are, in fact, Swedish. In 2003, my brother and I rescued our pet cat from the couch. The cat was stuck in the couch. The mother left us in charge of the house while she was […]
I ate here. I ate Indian food at Henry J. Bean’s Bar and Grill. I ate Indian food at this American themed restaurant inside of a 4-star hotel attached to the Don Muang International Airport in Bangkok. Why? I missed my connecting flight to Udon Thani. Why? I used an app called KIWI for cheap […]
The sweatshirt itself wasn’t homemade but the design on the sweatshirt was. He had creatively attached a doily of lace to the front of a black sweatshirt. He had also made the design on his backpack match the design on his sweatshirt. Wait… let me catch y’all up… In Hiroshima, Japan, I met up with […]
My passport. Dear Steven (yes, I call my passport Steven), I miss you and should take you to dinner. I know you aren’t a huge eater (picky – which I find endearing), but your company is what I miss. I can get you a little glass of vino as a symbolic gesture of friendship… nay…. […]
I appreciate this walking tour, but our serial killers win. – A fellow American I met on the Macabre Krakow walking tour (she isn’t wrong) I must have the kind of face that says, “Hello… talk to me…” because I found that as I wandered, that’s what would happen. People would just talk to me. […]
“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein At the hostel in Warsaw, I met K. She was staying in the hostel for just a day before going home to the town of Kielce, south of Warsaw. She offered to host me for a couple of days if I […]
“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.” – Aisha Mirza In early February 2019, I left Warsaw with a week to float around Poland before going to Krakow. I could have gone to Krakow early, […]
“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.” – Gina Greenlee Welcome to Poland! …. Part 1 ** This post is purely speaking about my experiences in Poland and not giving a travelers guide. I have tips for travelling in Poland, […]
Location – Dhamma Bhanu Vipassana Meditation Centre, Kyoto, Japan […] we found this velvet wall. It was dirt, but it felt like velvet. It was cool to see nature differently. It felt like the trees were pulsating sometimes, and we went over this look out trying to focus on individual trees and couldn’t. A patch […]
Wander Often 