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Favorite Charity

What’s Your Favorite Charity and Why?

I need your help. In the coming months, I’ll be starting work on a couple of new projects (as always!) and these projects have the potential to raise a good amount of money that I will want to give to … Read more

I Bought a Zoo

I Bought A Zoo While Traveling In Mexico

I don’t buy much while traveling. After all, I don’t have a house or an apartment to call my own and so, where would I put things if I bought them? I’m certainly not going to lug everything around with … Read more

Messy Traveler

Are You A Messy Traveler Too?

Whenever I am living in one place for a good amount of time, let’s say a few weeks or more, I tend to be quite a clean and orderly individual. I always make my bed each morning, I keep my … Read more

Dumbest Things I've Done

The Dumbest Things I’ve Done While Traveling

The idea for this post came about after I mentioned one of the “dumbest things I’ve done while traveling” on my Facebook Page the other day. The result was not only having my kind readers confirm that what I had … Read more

Books I'm Reading

The Books I’ve Been Reading Lately

This is a random post as I don’t normally write on Wednesdays, but I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately and I thought that I might as well let you know which books I’ve come across. It certainly doesn’t … Read more

I Have Absolutely Nothing To Say Today

For the past thirty minutes, I have typed nothing. Not a word. And the staff here at the Cafe Coffee Day, a sort of Starbucks-like Indian coffee chain, have started whispering to each other every time they glance in my … Read more

Sunset at Palolem Beach, Goa

My Year In Travel…A Look Back At 2012

Sitting here on the small balcony of my beach hut in Palolem, Goa, in the South of India, with the Arabian Sea only 30 meters in front of me and a palm tree full of coconuts providing me with some … Read more

3 boxes of stuff

What’s In The Closet…A Look At Everything I Own

A few weeks ago, a reader of the site wrote an email asking me an interesting question. He asked me whether or not I owned anything besides what I carry around with me in my backpack. Am I a true … Read more

Indian Flag

How Not To Get An Indian Visa

This post is being written from gate A28 at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas. And while it is true that only two days ago I traveled from Bucharest to Florida, a state which is a significant distance away from … Read more

Old City, Riga, Latvia

My Travel Plans For The Rest Of The Year

Oops. I forgot to publish a post yesterday. I wanted to write about my travel plans for the rest of the year but Monday came and went and between getting ready for my next set of travels and actually flying … Read more