…ssports. I gladly obliged him and he started flipping through the pages in search of my visa. He finally found it and started barking something in Russian and I just kept saying visa and giving him the thumbs up sign as if to say that it was in order and legal. I don’t think that he cared very much and he just took our two passports and headed off the train. Needless to say, this made me very nervous. As a seasoned traveler, my passport is m…
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The Belarus Ordeal
December 11, 2007 by 2 Comments
…ssports. I gladly obliged him and he started flipping through the pages in search of my visa. He finally found it and started barking something in Russian and I just kept saying visa and giving him the thumbs up sign as if to say that it was in order and legal. I don’t think that he cared very much and he just took our two passports and headed off the train. Needless to say, this made me very nervous. As a seasoned traveler, my passport is m…
Sanaa, Yemen
February 8, 2008 by 20 Comments
…#8217;s sons knew it as the land of milk and honey, Gilgamesh came here to search for the secret of eternal life and most famously, a woman simply known as Sheba called this land of Yemen her home. However, since the book of mythology has closed, Yemen had been locked away in a hidden corner of the peninsula-until now. Yemen is coming of age and showing itself to the world and let me tell you: Yemen sits at the crossroads of two continents, with f…
Vatican City
October 18, 2007 by 2 Comments
…t on his primordial function as the bishop of the Archdiocese of Rome. The term Holy See refers not to the Vatican state but to the Pope’s spiritual and pastoral governance, largely exercised through the Roman Curia. His official title with regard to Vatican City is Sovereign of the State of the Vatican City. The papacy is a non-hereditary, elective monarchy, chosen by the College of Cardinals. The Pope is also technically an absolute monarc…
Madagascar
January 12, 2010 by 9 Comments
…, impoverished, enlightening, sad, intriguing and all of these descriptive terms all come back to that fact that Africa gets in your blood. As much as it can frustrate the hell out of you and you constantly say TIA or Africa time, it moves you to come back time and time again. This was my eighth trip to the continent and in total I’ve spent about 6 months of my life on the “dark continent” and I can’t get enough. So to quote another well known per…
Farewell Old Friend
September 21, 2008 by 4 Comments
…at strike that nearly ruined baseball. The following year, 1995, started a string of 13 consecutive playoff appearances for the Yankees, an epic streak unequalled in baseball history. They would go on to win four World Series, six pennants and numerous division titles and I was there for several of those games including a few unforgettable moments. I was in the stadium for games four and five of the 2001 World Series against the Diamondbacks that…
The Fallacy of All-Time
February 17, 2009 by 8 Comments
…er, he is so stupid that he created a whole new chapter in the neverending string of assinine behavior this guy takes part in. If he doesn’t think that every reporter in the country is out looking for his cousin at this moment, he is a retard. He says that his cousin injected him. When he was asked what his cousin name was, he wouldn’t say. He just said they were stupid kids experimenting. I tell you what, I never said to my cousin, &#…
Day Trip to Greenland
June 5, 2012 by 45 Comments
…that the ice is melting and within two days they said the ice wouldn’t be string enough to hold sleds as the water was popping through the ice. A few times we actually fell through the ice and it scared the hell out of us. We were literally on top of a frozen inlet where if we did fall through into the water, we’d be dead for sure. There was nowhere to swim to as the ice would keep breaking as you tried to pull yourself up. Thoughts of awful movi…
5 Awesome Things to do in the Exumas, Bahamas
September 7, 2017 by 17 Comments
Exuma, or the Exumas, a string of islands in the Bahamas has become a bit of an Instagram sensation in the last year or two. It’s popularity has increased significantly mainly due to the now famous swimming pigs. That aside there is a lot to bring you to Exuma. Here are 5 awesome things to do in the Exumas. Swimming with the Pigs You can’t avoid it in the Exumas so why bother trying-just go with it! Swimming with the pigs in the Exumas is pretty…
My Epic Golf Trip to Ireland
October 24, 2016 by 6 Comments
…difficult. With the exception of holes 4-8, I played very well including a string of 8 straight pars from 9-16. Enniscrone was very quiet, serene and a great place to play golf. Afterwards, we went to get seaweed baths. This wasn’t really my thing but if you saw my Snapchat account of it, it was pretty funny! Then it was onto Mount Falcon Estates for my last night in Ireland. Mount Falcon was phenomenal and is probably my favorite place I’ve staye…
