TheDromomaniac.com

Couchsurfing vs. Airbnb vs. the hospital in Spain

Street name of the year: “Disappear Here” in Cordoba, Spain Who doesn’t love Spain? Are there still people who need convincing? What’s the worst thing you can say about Spain? The people are a...

May 24, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Zermatt and the highest lows of Switzerland

Which is more distressing: the fact that Thai burritos exist or that they cost 26.50 francs ($28.50)? This is my favorite insanely expensive thing in Switzerland out of many, many contenders: gummi...

Apr 4, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

The mad, mad, mad, mad world edition of the mailbag

Greetings from frigid Switzerland! How can anyone live in cold weather? It narrows your options. I don’t get it. Before we get to the mail, let’s get you in a sunny mood with these two clips of the...

Mar 1, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

A lifetime’s worth of horrible/fantastic memories in Istanbul

I tried unsuccessfully to find a Couchsurfing host in Istanbul. I guessed I was too last-minute, but just after I decided to go the hostel route, three people saw my open request and offered me a...

Feb 20, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

My favorite signs in Istanbul, Turkey

How about a quick photo collage for a change? Sign of the month from an Istanbul restaurant: “Do you speak Dutch? I don’t.” Duuuuude! I sparked up my lighter in Istanbul airport, slowly swayed back...

Feb 14, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Swapping identities at the Budapest flea market

Budapest! I made a visit heavy on reunions with a funny coincidence: a Hungarian friend I hadn’t seen in nearly twenty years knew a Hungarian friend I haven’t seen in nearly ten years from when...

Feb 5, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

How to pack; a dissection of my backpack

A brief note: my website was out of action for much of the holidays, which caused me an inordinate amount of grief, not because I know there were thousands of you who wanted to check out my toilets...

Jan 8, 2013 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Know your neighbors! Three months in Canada, Mexico and Guatemala

Look at the scowl on this guy’s face. It’s blurry because I was shooting quickly over my friend’s shoulder on a street in Mexico City, but he saw me and whirled around a moment later. The guy is...

Dec 18, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Hitchhiking from Guatemala City to Mexico City with a pinch of border corruption

Friendliest scoundrel ever This is a continuation of the previous post where we hitchhiked from Guatemala City to the border. We walked to the border, handed our passports to the Guatemalan...

Dec 12, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Adios, Guatemala! Incomparable Antigua, dreaded Guatemala City, and hitchhiking to the best Xmas parade ever

Name me a more beautiful town in Central America than Antigua. You can’t do it. Granada? Suchitoto? Boquete? Those places’ beauty fades the farther you get away it—the opposite of me; at 100 paces...

Dec 11, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Medical tourism and the lurking danger in lovely Guatemala

This kind of thing fascinates me: two shoeless vagabonds with a tablet computer. I see barefoot travelers all the time in Guatemala, but this is a very bad idea. There is so much broken glass on...

Dec 5, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

The best restaurant and the wurst hotel in Antigua, Guatemala

Chicken, broccoli, rice, potatoes, radishes, and a drink of pineapple juice with chunks of pineapple. I was going to write about medical tourism in Guatemala next, but my friend’s maladies haven’t...

Dec 1, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

High Hippy Season on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

I bought some empanadas from a couple of young girls wandering around selling them to foreigners. I asked to take a photo of them in their beautiful clothes, and they said I could do so only if I...

Nov 25, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Hitchhiking from Mexico to Guatemala; the journey is the destination

The journey is the destination. So deep! Go ahead, I can wait while you write that down. As corny as that sounds, though, it’s true. Or, put another way, I can say that the the buzz of being in...

Nov 20, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

An uninformed American look at Mexican food

I’m embarrassed talking about Mexican food because every time I am in Mexico I realize I hardly know a damn thing about it even though I always claim to love what I know to be “Mexican food”. Like...

Nov 17, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Is Mexico safe to travel?

You’ve been warned. Short mailbag question from Shane in USA: ”Hate to ask this question, but really curious…cartel issues? Mexico has such a bad rap right now.” Since Mexico is often in the news...

Nov 15, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Hitchhiking in southern Mexico—piece of cake!

Quick note: if you follow my Facebook page—and please do!—Facebook has changed the way you receive news from me. To ensure that you see me in your page, put your mouse on the “Liked” button and...

Nov 11, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

A tale of two beaches, Mazunte and Zipolite

The two guys here, Arthur from Austria and Max from Quebec, I met in a hostel in Oaxaca, and found them both in Mazunte. Stefanie in the middle runs a nice little bakery in town called Panaderia La...

Nov 8, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Lazy days in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

Seen in a health food store, this translates as ‘Wild Immediately’. Amazing graphic on the box, eh? Should I change my logo on the top of the page from my feet to this? It’s a thoroughly...

Nov 4, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Oaxaca this way to southern Mexico!

Oaxaca, which lies almost 500km southeast of Mexico City, is the capital of Oaxaca state. The part of central California I call home (for lack of a better place) has many Mixtecs, an ethnic group...

Oct 29, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Holy mole poblano in Puebla!

Surreal moment of the weekend in Puebla: a freakishly aggressive local bus driver with a compilation of Bee Gees’ love songs playing in the background like a mocking soundtrack. He cut people off...

Oct 23, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

A near-death bread experience flying to Mexico City

I love this. Pan de muerto means ‘death bread’. It is in honor of Day of the Dead celebrations in two weeks. Would death bread catch on in America? Someone needs to introduce it to the masses so we...

Oct 21, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

The pre-cheap flight to Mexico contest

Pop quiz! A tough one: in the photo below of a street crosswalk what is the third language and in which city is this? Here’s a hint: Kim Kardashian. The first person to answer correctly whom I have...

Oct 16, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

The United States Diversity Immigrant Visa program (aka the Green Card Lottery) is now open. Come live in America!

The United States Diversity Immigrant Visa Program is here! Commonly known as the Green Card Lottery, this is the best, easiest and maybe cheapest way to live and work legally in USA for a while....

Oct 15, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

What I know about Canada (postlude)

Wait, where am I again? I could have sworn I left California two weeks ago. I can sense my Canadian friends tensing up. Oh, so this American comes here for ten days and now he’s an expert? No, but...

Oct 8, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Rescued by an Indian; hitchhiking and couchsurfing in Canada

Maybe my sign was part of the problem. It wasn’t my best work. My brushstrokes were too aggressive. The black/white contrast was too strong. I should have gone for a comic sans font. It couldn’t...

Oct 6, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Bottom feeding in Vancouver, Canada

Mr. Lee of Lee’s Donuts making a rare, brief appearance in his shop on Granville Island. He implored me to try a still-warm, honey dip glazed donut that you see in the foreground. I’d never heard...

Oct 2, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

(Almost not) crossing the USA/Canada border on foot

At the border with a woman’s backpack. I intend to get a better pack while on the road, but it hasn’t happened yet. In the men’s bathroom of the immigration office there was no toilet seat liner....

Sep 29, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

One Man, Two Legs in Seattle

From Los Angeles, the Restaurant Name of the Year: No Tomatoes. Elegant Union Station in Los Angeles I flew from Long Beach, California to Seattle, Washington, a distance of exactly 979 miles (1576...

Sep 27, 2012 Like

TheDromomaniac.com

Welcome to Bloglovin'

Follow your favorite blogs and discover new ones. Learn more »

Sign up to follow

Select country

TheDromomaniac.com

Couchsurfing vs. Airbnb vs. the hospital in Spain

Zermatt and the highest lows of Switzerland

The mad, mad, mad, mad world edition of the mailbag

A lifetime’s worth of horrible/fantasti­c memories in Istanbul

My favorite signs in Istanbul, Turkey

Swapping identities at the Budapest flea market

How to pack; a dissection of my backpack

Know your neighbors! Three months in Canada, Mexico and Guatemala

Hitchhiking from Guatemala City to Mexico City with a pinch of border corruption

Adios, Guatemala! Incomparable Antigua, dreaded Guatemala City, and hitchhiking to the best Xmas parade ever

Medical tourism and the lurking danger in lovely Guatemala

The best restaurant and the wurst hotel in Antigua, Guatemala

High Hippy Season on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala

Hitchhiking from Mexico to Guatemala; the journey is the destination

An uninformed American look at Mexican food

Is Mexico safe to travel?

Hitchhiking in southern Mexico—piece of cake!

A tale of two beaches, Mazunte and Zipolite

Lazy days in Puerto Escondido, Mexico

Oaxaca this way to southern Mexico!

Holy mole poblano in Puebla!

A near-death bread experience flying to Mexico City

The pre-cheap flight to Mexico contest

The United States Diversity Immigrant Visa program (aka the Green Card Lottery) is now open. Come live in America!

What I know about Canada (postlude)

Rescued by an Indian; hitchhiking and couchsurfing in Canada

Bottom feeding in Vancouver, Canada

(Almost not) crossing the USA/Canada border on foot

One Man, Two Legs in Seattle

What I know about Canada (prelude)

Deise de Oliveira

Alouise Dittrick

Meritxell

Stephen Schreck

Estrella Explores

+ 5 more followers

Weekend Adventures Update weekendadventuresupdate...

Traveling with Sweeney travelingwithsweeney.com

Christine in Spain christineinspain.com

materialicious materialicious.com

Queerty queerty.com

Food+Tech Connect foodandtechconnect....

Sole Sisters wearesolesisters.com

Maiden Voyage maiden-voyage-travel.com

Diary of a Wandering Student diaryofawanderingstuden...

Active Backpacker activebackpacker.com

Sit Down Disco Travel and Food sitdowndisco.com

Bites of Pleasure bitesofpleasure.com

Select your language

A lifetime’s worth of horrible/fantastic memories in Istanbul