I already never wanted to leave. I'd only been in Galway for a couple of hours and had only made it down the main stretch of restaurants and shops. But I felt like I could stay there forever, trying out different pubs, listening to the live...
It wasn't love at first sight. Of course, it rarely is. I arrived in Bogota on a Sunday afternoon, after an 8-hour bus ride from San Gil, and opted for a too-expensive taxi into town. Pointing to one of the recommended hostels in my Lonely Planet, I...
1. I am not drinking tonight. I arrived in Bocas del Toro on the Fourth of July. In the morning, in Puerto Viejo, I watched Joey Chestnut break his hot dog eating record with the help of a vpn, a borrowed cable login, and espn.com, and...
"When I met you I thought you were together," the Korean girl sitting across from Alex and I at the bar said, "you seemed really close." This was after we answered the other guy's question of "where did you two meet," with "at the hostel yesterday." And...
I had some of the crazier nights I've had in a while while in Boracay. Nights where this suppressed dancer danced and sang all night long. Nights where we listened to acoustic music and drank happy hour Red Horses or two for one cocktails....
All I wanted was dinner. Scratch. Dinner and wifi. That was my plan. My mission. That was what I was looking for when I was walking down the street on one of my first nights in Pai. I certainly wasn't looking to meet a guy. In...
I am afraid of heights. No, that's not quite true. I am afraid of plummeting from heights. I held on for dear life and cried excessively every time a child bumped into me at the top of the Eiffel Tower for god's sake. So, how,...
You can't tell Jaime and I that there are sex temples in India — temples that feature erotic depictions of sex, orgies, oral sex, anal sex, bestiality, random sexual positions no one on earth can possibly maintain — and not expect us to book the...
When I turned around, Aaron, one of the only others who stayed behind, asked me why I didn't go with them. And I replied, "I don't know." Because none of my excuses seemed valid. Then Aaron asked me if I wanted to go book a ticket with...
I expected Koh Phangan to be a party town. One where I'd spend my days relaxing on the beach and my nights drinking buckets until I passed out. In five nights there, though, I mostly sipped beer, nary finished a bucket, hardly even made it...