Tagged: Cheat

Fort Portal to Butiaba: Cheats, Near Collisions, and Jerry Can Showers

February 13, 2016

Fort Portal to Butiaba: Cheats, Near Collisions, and Jerry Can Showers

Fort Portal to Butiaba: Cheats, Near Collisions, and Jerry Can Showers. Feb 13. To get from Fort Portal to Butiabam, I got up and found a mini-van leaving Fort Portal and heading north to a town called Hoima. 30,000 shillings ($8.80). When I asked, they told me it was going to take about three hours to get to Hoima. One always needs to double that number to mentally prepare for the actual arrival time… As I was sitting and waiting...

Bogota to Medellin

Big Beaver Diaries / Colombia 2014

July 21, 2014

Bogota to Medellin – Lesbians with No English Trump English Speaking Gringos

July 21. Bogota to Medellin. Beer is the same price as water in Colombia. Surely that and the hot weather is one contributing factor to why it is a third world country. It is always warm enough so that if you do not work to make enough money to cover your rent, you will not freeze to death. With no pressing need to make sure you survive the winter, you might as well drink beer instead. I decided to pull...

Meeting a Silverback Gorilla Family, Rwanda February 7, 2016 Today was a special day where I went to spend an hour with a silverback gorilla family in the mountains of Rwanda. It was…
Tinku Festival in Bolivia – Part 2, The Fights May 4, 2014 Breakfast was at 8:30am, and I was the last to arrive. I was still feeling effects of the chicha, the local corn-moonshine we had…
“The Bloodhound Gang are Wankers!” January 10, 2017 Anyone ever heard of a band called Electric Eel Shock? There is a reason why you haven’t. The reason why you haven’t heard of…
Inside of a Cocaine Lab – San Agustín, Colombia July 26, 2014 I wish I could say that we were inside of a pristine shiny and sterile cocaine lab that I had pictured in my mind…
Bangkok, Thailand – Sex Show August 3, 2008 Bangkok, Thailand -Sex Show [su_dropcap]I[/su_dropcap]t was early August and my German girlfriend and I had just left Australia on a cheap flight to squeaky…
Shin Kicking World Championship in Cotswold June 3, 2016 Convincing a 20 year old to get out of bed at 10:30 is no easy feat… It turns out that playing Slayer really loud…
Ayahuasca and Mental Inception – Rio de Janeiro Forest March 15, 2014 We were up early to meet a group of three other gringos at Central station at 10am. We were early. We were tired. We…
Making Music in a Senior Citizen’s Center January 30, 2015 My father was hanging out with me in the basement, and then he began getting his band equipment together to haul upstairs to load…
The Recipe for a Fascinating Day March 18, 2013 Want the recipe for a fascinating day? This one serves three: Step One – Get Ingredients and Heat up the Oven It started when…
Sailing the Pacific Ocean from Guam to Japan May 1, 2012 I was up at 7:00am, showered, packed and caught a bus from my hotel to Hyun Jin’s place where she fed me breakfast. She…