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My Asylum From The Insanity Of Travel

By Earl, on April 21st, 2010 | 29 comments

I don’t know about you, but every now and then while I’m traveling, I need to take a break from all the exploration, discoveries and interactions, not to mention the challenges such as having a monkey steal your sandals in the middle of a city or hiking for five hours in the mud only to discover that you’ve taken the wrong path up to the famous Golden Rock. You know, the stuff that often makes travel nothing but an insane undertaking. Sometimes all I [...]

Slovakia: Mud, Salt and Nudity at the Piestany Spa

By Earl, on February 17th, 2010 | 7 comments

Standing naked in a room full of people is rarely my idea of relaxation, especially when every other person in the room is fully clothed. The attendant, Jaroslav, had told me to take off all of my clothes behind a curtain and then meet him over in one of the small cubicles on the other side of the room. So when I popped out from behind the curtain, the last thing I expected to run into was a line of ten teenage girls walking [...]

Luke Duke and Blogging to the Rescue

By Earl, on February 5th, 2010 | 17 comments

I was all set to finish up a post I had written about orange warning cones and holes in the sidewalk. I had worked on it all afternoon and only had a couple of paragraphs left to comb over when I decided to turn off my computer and head into town for a quick bite to eat. So off I went.

After the meal, as I was driving home (about an hour ago), belly full and eager to publish my post, I hit a [...]

Stop A Wastin' Time in the Pursuit of Blame

By Earl, on December 22nd, 2009 | 8 comments

Taking a quick break from my afternoon work session yesterday, I went into the kitchen for a glass of juice. Apple juice to be exact. A few minutes later I returned to my desk and immediately noticed something unfortunate. Right there before me, splattered all over my computer screen and keyboard, were dozens of droplets of saliva.

I reacted quickly, yelling out, “Who spit on my computer screen? Come on, who spit on the screen?” A sudden burst of frustration spread within and I [...]

Airports, Speed Bumps & Uncle Carl

By Earl, on December 18th, 2009 | 10 comments

Airports are funny places. Inside these isolated bubbles of transition, where you can only exist in one of two states – coming or going – human beings tend to act oddly, even irrationally. Perhaps it’s the ‘high’ of travel, the over-excitement of visiting someplace new or returning home after some time away, that is too much for us to handle. Our brains flutter, sending abnormal signals to the rest or our bodies, causing us to do such things as walk at a speed of [...]