Category: Off-the-beaten-path

Bucket List / Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / USA

July 3, 2018

The Badlands aren’t so bad after all

On my way across the country, I rode 3,100 miles and passed through 14 states and four time zones. Ever since I saw photos of it in a magazine back in the 1980s, I have been dying to visit Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Before white settlement, the Lakota...

Art / Off-the-beaten-path / USA

May 10, 2018

Well, what else are you going to do with old chewing gum?!

Who started this insane tradition? In the alleyway that serves as the back entrance to Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market, is the equally famous “gum wall”. Actually several walls along about 50′ of the alley

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path

May 2, 2018

Visiting a castle in France

For some reason, the town of Châtellerault, France seems to have a magnetic pull. My first visit to there was under somewhat trying circumstances. I had just done my best to completely destroy a rental car.

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Wandering

April 30, 2018

Every French village is as pretty as the one before

Driving through the tiny villages of the bucolic French countryside, it seemed that every single one of them was as cute and adorable as the one that came before. There was so much cuteness that

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Sedate

April 24, 2018

The “Big City” (compared to my tiny 16th century French village)

Just four and a half miles from my tiny little French village sits the closest town that actually has

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Sedate

April 22, 2018

Living for a Month in a 16th Century French Village

Here I am, sitting next to a roaring fire in a 16th century French farmhouse. Part of my journey has included housesitting. I often get asked what that is and how it works. Basically,

Culture / Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Wandering

April 20, 2018

Artful blending of the Old World with the new

Europe has long been called “the Old World”. Seeing some of the beautiful centuries-old architecture, it’s obvious why. At the same time, people actually live here and

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Wandering

April 18, 2018

The Professionalization of Graffiti

Like most major cities, Barcelona has its fair share of graffiti. Unlike most, I have found something strange here.

Europe / Off-the-beaten-path / Off-the-cuff

April 7, 2018

Sidewalk Condom Vending Machine

Wandering the very tiny town of Ruffec, France, I spotted this condom vending machine on the sidewalk outside a pharmacy. Europeans are far more progressive about certain topics than Americans.

Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / South America / Tropics / Wandering

March 2, 2018

Cactus Flowers

By the side of a busy road in Guayaquil, where basically no one pays attention or appreciates them, stand a bunch of very large cacti. I was fortunate enough to see them in full flower. The flowers on these cacti last only 3-4 days. So when I returned the next...

Category: Off-the-beaten-path

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