I was surprisingly pleased to be physically capable of supporting my fifty pound backpack after only four hours of sleep. From my couchsurfer’s residence in west Bergen, I bused over Michael Krohn’s Gate to Central Station and attempted to sleep on the train to Myrdal. Drifted in and out of pseudo-rest for an hour then […]
Trail leading up to the walls of Sudak Fortress, 2012 View from pier in Novyi Svit, 2012 NOTE: This was before the horrible invasion and destruction of Crimea. After an 16 hour train ride in second class from Kiev to Simferopol, and a bus transfer from Simferopol, we finally arrived exhausted, hungry, and dirty as […]
Sands with Chinese New Year Celebration Float in the Foreground, 2013 Singapore, Arab Quarter 2013 Rule One: Never enter into a Shopping Mall, no matter how badly you need to use the restroom or crave the air conditioning. If you’re body starts to gravitate towards Sim Lim, try to conjure memories of the valleys and […]
Canals of St. Petersburg, 2012 Lenin commanding, 2012 Square. Harsh. Bleak. Dark. A quickness hoarding resent. Passing facade after facade, lifeless windows. Dilapidation of all we pass. The water even moves forcefully, violently against the boats, against itself. Each wave thrashing without repetition or order. The sky barring down upon the city and its inhabitants. We […]
Lake Louise, 2013 View of Calgary from McHugh Bluff Park, 2013 The moment you land in Calgary and approach the city, you can instantly tell that it is a gateway to a natural landscape. The river, which separates the city into two distinctive parts, leads the eye to meet the peaks of the Canadian Rockies […]
FatCow, the inane website hosting provider, deleted my entire archive of writing. I’m in the process of restoring it, apologies for the horrid design and lack of interesting aspects.
Vatnajökull 2014, Located further south, the thawing icecap’s mass totaled 8% of the country and lead to Dentifoss’s powerful rate of cascading 3,059,436 gallons of water per second. The world anthem for indie soulful wanderlusters is the same in every country – a combination of folksy rock whose singer bellows with a heart heavy of […]
Cathedral Nueva, 2010 Tumbling throughout, 2010 Salamanca is a university town that is filled solely with senior citizens and tourists during the summer. This transient population tends to linger mostly around Rua Mayor, dining at expensive, subpar restaurants in Plaza Mayor. The feeling I take away from this architectural gem is that it has been […]
Afternoon sun on the Amazon, 2014 Kayaking in Tanimboca, 2014 Stepping off the 8 person john boat, after a day on the Amazon, I feel slightly jovial about emerging unscathed. Somehow during our two hour journey back to Leticia, I fell asleep- head bobbing back and forth against the top of the lifevest like a […]
Pena Palace, Sintra, Portugal The streets are narrow and wind up the hilltop, decorated with bright streamers and other adornments that mimic children’s’ birthday decorations. The little leathered Portuguese locals stand outside their tiny business doors; their lolling posture and gentle stares implying an eternal wait. The old #28 tram somehow winds through these streets, hauling loads […]