A Collection of Favorite Travel Essays & Books
E s s a y s Confession of an Opium Seeker, by Nick Tosches "Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, the author goes in...
Can You Say, "La La Lost in Translation?" (A Mini Collection)
A curation of the more entertaining cross-cultural aspects of living in Korea. Expat residents in Korea are very familiar with many of...
The Absurdity of Teaching EFL in South Korea
Depending on where you're placed for a silly EFL job assignment in the country, experiences can vary considerably. These trials and...
Travel Quotations
I've compiled some of my favorite travel quotations from various well-know bygone and contemporary travel writers that I often recite to...
Phonetically Racist
My first year as an English teacher in South Korea, in addition to my 22 hours of classes per week, I was given the responsibility of...
Wireless Use & Tech Trickery On the Road
It's never been easier to stay tethered to the grid, plugged in and logged on. The digital age has afforded the modern rambling man and...
Best Dead-end Job in the World
Teaching English as a Foreign Language (EFL) in Seoul, South Korea at a public elementary school is arguably one of the best dead-end...
Hweshik Dinners in Korea
I sit there and watch as the boiling broth of seafood, including a live octopus, moves and squirms around beneath the lid. My appetite? ...
20 Tips for Traveling Alone
The burnout, Ko Phangan, Thailand 1. Honor your word, guard your reputation; it's all you got besides your wits 2. Act like you know...
A Tokyo Christmas
Asakusa 浅草 district in Taitō Tokyo, Japan My second Christmas in Korea I decided to visit Tokyo, Japan. Originally I wanted to see...