On one of my last days in Cyprus, I had to pleasure to be invited for a dinner with these experienced travelers from France and Chile. More than the attention-grabbing title, ‘cross cross-continental hitchhikers’, I was curious about their unique life stories such as what led you to start this, and what keeps you going. …
Last dinner in Lebanon I’ve already stayed for two weeks in Lebanon and my experience has not always been ‘smooth’ here. For one, I had some amount of bad luck. I was sick the first few days, my laptop finally died giving the concern that I might lose some of the interview footages, and the …
While I’ll be gone and backpacking from Lebanon to Egypt, my car will rest in a parking lot in Barcelona. In fact, it started having its vacation from a month ago, when I flew to Korea. Today I dropped by the parking lot to swap some contents in my backpack and to do some car …
“Staying in touch” In 2007, I was starting a new life in a small town called San Ignacio in Paraguy as a biology/chemistry teacher at a highschool. Because my house was far from the city center, when I was doing grocery shopping, I used to buy a large quantity of my staple food just to …
Hector is one of my friends living in Barcelona, but he’s the only one who’s born and raised there – a native Catalan! When we met the last time in Washington D.C., I was the resident and he was the visitor, and this time it was the other way around. Recently I had been educating …
I’ve met many travelers while staying at hostels but it has not been the case every single time. Often times, I don’t get to meet a single person in one of the busiest hostels. I assume many factors are involved: my mood at the time, other people’s moods, the dynamic of the room, and the …
The first time I met Nat was in San Jose, Costa Rica. It was three years ago and I was a vacation tourist then. Nat says I asked him for directions but I actually do not remember. There was a street parade going on on the avenue so we watched it together for about 10 …
At first, I was not excited about having to move from Rotterdam to Delft. Not only did I find the city charming, I just got used the surroundings there. But I realized that all the hostels had been booked for the weekend – I was slow. Still, I wanted to stay close to Rotterdam, because …