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How Do Travelers Not Get Killed? 27 Aug 2013 | 12:42 pm
The following is a question from a reader named Eva about how perpetual travelers can move through the world and stay alive too. hi! so i have many dreams of travelling but a question keeps popping u...
“Do You Have Pizza Hut In America Too?” 26 Aug 2013 | 06:15 pm
“Do you have Pizza Hut in America too?” one of my Chinese friends asked my wife and I as we sat at a local pizzeria in Xiamen. I burst out laughing. The question seemed ridiculous. Of course we have ...
No-See-Ums: Small Insect, Big Travel Problem 26 Aug 2013 | 12:00 pm
There were two possibilities: 1) The insects that were biting my body were bedbugs, 2) they were no-see-ems. It was my first night sleeping in my apartment in Xiamen and I was being bitten all over m...
Backpacking Blind: The Magnificent Story Of Alessandro Bordini 25 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
Meet Alessandro. Hailing from Italy, he is currently several months into his world circumnavigating trip, being almost done with his African segment, from Morocco to Ethiopia via South Africa, flying ...
My Experience Traveling On A Folding Bicycle 25 Aug 2013 | 10:25 am
The wheels of a bicycle and the human mind perhaps rotate to the same beat. Mental and physical stimulation is perhaps the lure that keeps people moving forward. The human mind can handle many things,...
Typhoon Trami Makes Landfall But Seems Pretty Tame 22 Aug 2013 | 07:47 am
In late summer and early autumn, when the winds pick up in Xiamen, when the sky becomes covered in clouds, when the rains begin to fall heavy you know what’s coming: a typhoon. I laid in my bed with ...
How Much Food $5 Gets You In China 21 Aug 2013 | 06:53 pm
My wife returned amazed from a trip to the market in Taizhou, a city in China’s Jiangsu province. She dumped two armfuls worth of food on our kitchen table and exclaimed that she got it all for 31 RMB...
Why I Set Up In Xiamen 20 Aug 2013 | 07:33 pm
I often talk about having these “bases of operation” and “travel hubs” around the world, but I rarely discus why I chose these places to set up shop in. Often, I just sort of land in places, take a lo...
Lack Of Refrigeration Leads To Food Poisoning Mistake 19 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
There were two cartons of UHT milk sitting on the table when I woke up this morning. They were both opened. One I’d opened the night before, the other was from the night before that. One would be sure...
Stepping Out Of The Traveling Life Is A Bad Idea 16 Aug 2013 | 02:12 pm
There was something about that jalopy apartment that I liked. It wasn’t just the bush enclosed dirt patch that I call a backyard either. It was some strange pull to engage in something mnemonically fa...
