Well, the bags are finally packed. I’ve sold my Texas edition pickup-truck and condensed a 1600sq ft house and all my possessions into Big Bertha, my backpackers’ bag. And WOWZA…

Next week hundreds of travel bloggers will begin converging in Toronto for the annual Travel Blog Exchange, often referred to as TBEX. Although this will be their fourth annual gathering,…

That’s right, in just one month I will bid adieu to my house in Austin and embark on my longest and greatest adventure yet. No more ‘six weeks in this…

Every week they get better and better. This week I sat down with self-confessed travel freak Jeremy Foster, who many of you probably recognize from his awesome and aptly named…

Yes, the US edition of TBEX 2012 (the Travel Blog Exchange) is kicking off…well, technically the pre-events have already begun. But Friday’s evening soiree (yes, tomorrow) will be the real…

Worth over $2 billion annually, California’s world-renowned wines used to be its number one cash crop, but now they’ve been surpassed — err..blown away — by the marijuana industry, which…

I ‘ll start in Japan I tried everything that was handed to me 99% good. Then I tried this octopus and I am not sure how it was prepared etc…

Why spoil the mood with words when all you need are pictures to tell a thousand stories… well, that and maybe an occasional caption… This is the first of my…

Music lovers around the world are rejoicing this week with the return of the annual SXSW (South by Southwest) Music & Film Festival in Austin, Texas. Yes, every spring the…

FLASHBACK: 3 Years Ago It started off as a random night of drinking at Nonbeiyokocho in Shibuya ward, Tokyo, but ended up with us making friends with a couple local…

Fourth of July, Washington, D.C. Our hippie bus had rolled into town the night before and, tired and unable to find a hotel — ehh, whom I kidding, we didn’t…

After the madness of Bonnaroo and all the honky-tonkin’ in downtown Nashville, we were planning to continue east and camp out for a week or two in the Great Smoky…

Arriving in Nashville, Tennessee, we actually had a family waiting to take us in. Max’s godparents live on a large piece of property off 12th avenue, just south of downtown….

Leaving Texas, we cut through Oklahoma on our way to Ozark, Arkansas, a sleepy little town with a population of around 3,000 that really only comes alive once a year,…

Have you ever left on what you thought would be a one-week vacation, only to not return home until six months later? Yeah, that is what happened to me during…

Located in the Gulf of Nicoya, Tortuga Island is actually comprised of two islands with a combined total landmass of only about one square mile. But despite its small size,…

Heard of the My 7 Links initiative that has been going around recently? For those of you that have not, its about connecting travel bloggers together as well as remembering…

So by Jared’s last post you may or may not have realized what we stumbled upon in Puntarenas. Let’s just say for all the shit that happened along the way,…

All I can say is we hit the jackpot in Puntarenas. Hint: figure of history dating back to the Timothy Leary group. ooohhh I’ve said too much already. Puntarenas Is…

So imagine someone invites you to a party and you show up, but they do not. Now imagine that instead of a party it was a foreign country — a…

Already I have posted several hundred new pictures of Costa Rica and our adventures thus far, so what are you waiting for, go check ‘em out! Additionally, every 10-12 hrs…

I have so fucking much to say! Wow! First off, forgive the lack of posts this last, well…pretty much all of 2010. I have just been so damn busy as…

Well, spent last week at Burning Flipside 2KX — fucking fantastic! For those of you who don’t know, Burning Flipside is the largest Burning Man regional anywhere in the world….

Well, made it back alive. Had the time of my life too! Got 1,086 new pictures and a few dozen videos as well. And I have to say, I was…

Well, glad I updated the ‘Daze early this morning (or I guess yesterday morning, since it is technically after 4am here), because that typhoon that was coming in the night…