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Salt Veins
The road is a blur.
Mountains, rivers, and endless jade-green rice paddies whip by at 70 clicks an hour. Pause to slowly work your way through a herd of water buffalo and then punch it.… Read More
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This Guy
Formerly morbidly-obese library cop turned freelance travel writer and jungle vagabond. Currently riding my tiny scooter around Asia, and writing from the rainy beaches of the Cambodian coast.
Travelogues, training, and cautionary tales for those feeling sidelined by circumstance and hoping to change their lives through travel.… Read More
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I always imagined saving a life would be a clean, heroic act. A trying moment after which one could, exhausted, bask in the praise of a job well done.
In practice, covered in my own vomit, and filled with unexpected guilt, I found myself unable to meet the hollow gaze of the young man I had just pulled from the sea.… Read More
Don’t shit where you live.
One imagined this to be a universal tenet. One shared by all. Or so I thought.
I’m swinging a pickaxe on the third storey of a crumbling mud-brick house on the outskirts of the Kathmandu valley, and I’m up to my ankles in human waste.… Read More
Ya know those classic pictures you have in your head of third world transportation? The Indian bus, chickens packed to the ceiling, people on the roof and hanging out the windows? Well India doesn’t allow that anymore. It’s unsafe and unbecoming of a modern nuclear nation state.… Read More
I arrived into Kathmandu on the eve of the year 2073. For the non-lunar calendar users say that puts us at about April 13th, 2016. The city one year on from the earthquake was lively and gearing up for the evenings festivities.… Read More
In 2001, King Dipendra of Nepal reigned for just 56hrs. He did so from a hospital bed, in a coma, having just gunned down almost the entire Royal family as it was sitting down to Sunday dinner.… Read More
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