Compared to the glittery metropolis of Tokyo or the ancient sublimity of Kyoto, it’s easy to forget the more grounded and working class city of Osaka. But that…
California/ Destinations/ Food Porn/ North America/ Travel/ United States
Discovering San Francisco: dive bars, red meat, strips clubs, and martinis.
By the time I first made it to Haight-Ashbury the only hippies left were crusty gutter punks yelling at the tourists from their cardboard sidewalk guesthouses. A jangle…
Destinations/ North America/ Travel/ United States/ Washington
Backpacking the Ancient Lakes and Kamiak Butte.
Last year my awesome partner Katy (aka Unicorn) hiked the Pacific Crest Trail. Having hiked extensively in my younger days I was quite jealous of her adventure, but…
When I asked my daughter if she could pick any place in the world to see she chose Paris. A city hopelessly entwined with the collective consciousness of…
Destinations/ Food Porn/ Spirits/ The Netherlands/ Travel/ Western Europe
Bitterballen, hotchpotch stampot, jenever, and haring. Hunting down traditional Dutch food in Amsterdam.
Honestly, when it comes to northern European food, I hadn’t heard good things. But I have to say I fell in love with traditional Dutch food. Tasty bar snacks,…
Destinations/ The Netherlands/ Travel/ Western Europe
Walking every goddamn inch of Amsterdam’s Old Centre, the canal rings, and the Jordaan.
I know the trope. Go to Amsterdam, get baked, sleep with a Ukranian prostitute. It’s so pervasive that that’s all that anyone seems to think about Amsterdam. Just…
Belize/ Destinations/ Food Porn/ Latin America/ Travel
You better Belize it! Getting slow on Caye Caulker, Belize.
This place made me feel good. A little piece of paradise. I can imagine myself one day dropping off the grid and tending a thatched-roof sand-floor bar waiting on…
Destinations/ Spain/ Travel/ Western Europe
C215 (aka Christian Guémy) and Hazul Luzah. A look at street art from Barcelona, Spain and Porto, Portugal.
While I was in Barcelona, I was drawn to the street art there. Seattle also has a high level of street art and I recognized some local sticker…
Kyoto is the religious and cultural center of Japan. It has over 2000 active temples, 1600 Buddhist and 400 Shinto. Spared most of the destruction of World War…
Asia/ Destinations/ Food Porn/ Japan/ Travel
Robots, lasers, and noodles! Prowling Tokyo’s Shinjuku redlight district.
Shinjuku is a major metropolitan transit hub inside of Tokyo with over 3.64 million commuters per day at the Shinjuku station as well as the city’s predominant redlight…