Flying is fun. Economy, first class, hang-gliders, personal light aircraft, helicopters, biplanes, even in a house attached to balloons — all can be a blast! At least to us poor…

I’m not dead, it’s just been an erratic summer road trip. Ever since TBEX back in June I’ve been taking minor treks around the American central / southwest as well…

Well, my first Travel Blog Exchange was a success..sort of. As I mentioned in my last post, I only purchased my ticket a week beforehand and was totally unprepared for…

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…

Although SXSW (South By Southwest) is a hard to compare experience — over 2,000 bands in one week! — I did try to capture some of the essence on video….

Continuing my documentation of the week-long music festival that is SXSW, I present round two of my photos. We’re going to try and play a little game. In one of…

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…

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…

Colorado is one of my favorite states in the US. Not only is it beautiful and historic, but it is also full of some of the nicest citizens of any…

Yet another random multi-state road trip concluded this weekend when I finally returned to Texas after over a month of cruising around the US to clear my mind. All this…

In continuation with the upcoming release of the new and improved HoliDaze, I have been taking a few solo road trips to various locales and popular tourist sites to get…

Just got done setting up my personal account on Google+, as well as a custom G+ page for the HoliDaze. Are you already on G+? If so, add us to…

It’s too damn hot down in Texas so I’m going to hit the road solo. Not sure for how long, I just happened to be coming back from visiting ol…

Oh man I can’t believe what is happening in my home state of Texas! It is burning up all around us and is sad to look at. Meanwhile Rick Perry…

Well we made it back to the States, took us a little longer than Jen though. We need to get some of her Guatemala information up here but we are…

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….

In all my years of traveling I have yet to ever feel homesick. As a matter of fact, it is not until I step foot back in America that I…

Yep, it has been a great couple months in Tokyo, but this trip has finally come to an end. And damn am I ever depressed. Not once on the trip…