Ssssh…don’t tell anyone, but I think I have the best way of sleeping on planes for backpackers around. My techniques can be used not only in planes, but in any other location where standard seating is rows of cramped seats with minimal amounts of legroom.
There are many other ways than mine to sleep on a [...]
As I write these words, I bow my head in shame. I was the guy who thought this sort of thing would never happen to him. But it did.
I’m generally an alert guy when online. I look at the “from” field on emails, and double-check URL’s before entering my password into them. But on this [...]
I conquered a fear today. And it turned out to be a very good experience.
I have always (since I was 7 or 8 years old) wanted to call into a talk radio show. The earliest radio show I remember listening to was a show called “Online Tonight” with David Lawrence.
Even as a kid, I was [...]
As you all know, I’m on Maui right now, in Hawaii.
Although I am, in many respects, treating it as a travel destination for the remainder of my stay (just 22 more days), it does happen to have been my home for much of my life. My mother lives in Kula, on the slopes of “Haleakala” [...]
I have spent the last month scouring the island of Maui (apart from Lahaina, you’re on your own over there) for fast, open, reliable wifi hotspots. After many frustrating hours of wandering with hours of work being lost on account of weak, crappy wifi signals, I present to you my coveted list of wifi oasis’s [...]
Here it is. The long-awaited post about what I have in my backpack (yes…only one backpack). I have carefully picked the items that would stay or go in my mini-pack, and am constantly looking for smaller, better, more functioning items to replace my current ones.
Here is a photo of everything I have in my pack [...]