I landed in Peru on a hot, sticky night nearly 9 years ago and launched The Friends Project and this idea that we can make a difference, with little resources but good ideas. Here's my first post. I can still feel the sweat dripping down my neck…
I've seen a lot of amazing things these 10.5 months on the road; where I grew up in a small town of Honeoye Falls, New York, (see it on a map) [https://www.google.de/maps/place/Honeoye+Falls,+NY,+USA/@42.956181,-77.5895995,14z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!…
I'm going to Lithuania because I had to look up where the capitol is on a map and I know no one who has been there. So I will go find out myself. I'm also going to drive a tank. Uzupis is an area of the city comprised of mostly artists a…
I finally saw “Into the Wild.” Do you know this story? It is a true one. A college graduate who wished to seek truth and simplicity gave up his possessions, gave his money to charity, drove his junker car out into the desert and abandoned it and th…
My girl Tanya has shared with some of the best music for traveling — for staring out the train window and running where your mind takes you. "Fluke" by Puppy is one. And this. [http://vimeo.com/69957393] I can't imagine how many time…
Took the tram out to the university and giggled to hear this music. There's a lot of street musicians — "buskers" — in Europe, and I love to be surprised with serenades while on my commute or catching a bus, that would otherwise be mun…
Well that was AWESOME! 500M from the apartment is the Romer [http://www.roemer-bremen.de], a little bar/club I'm sad it took me 3 weeks to find. It's dark but light, purple, and small, and it seemed people knew each other. I hung out by myse…
On a windy afternoon in New Zealand, Drew drove us out to one of his favorite places to see the sun set. We took a long and windy road up and then down a mountain, watching the waves roll in to the coastline as we descended between shrubs and walls…
Last night, Olaf made me dinner to be nice. I'm sick. Tonight, I want to make him dinner. Without exxageration, this is how it goes: I find a can of spicy Vindaloo sauce, with directions — in English. I don't eat spicy food. This is what w…
