Category: Travel
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How My Luck Changed in Ireland (Part 3) + Travel Tips
…My favorite part of Ireland is the Galway area. As I started to see the beautiful scenery of the west coast of Ireland outside the bus window I felt that I had finally arrived in the Ireland of my imagination, or the closest thing to it. John Wayne filmed a movie there in the 50’s…
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How To Safely Explore America While Living in Your Van or Car
In October of 2015 I moved out of my apartment in North Carolina and into a 1998 Dodge Ram 1500 Van. I was not evicted, just bored with the same old predictable way of suburban life, doing the same things over and over, seeing the same people over and over. Tired of paying rent month…
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Chasing Rainbows in Ireland (Part Two)
…So I arrived at the bus station in Cork, it was late, around 10:30 pm. Then I took a taxi to the house I was staying at via my couchsurfing “reservation”. I did not realize how far out it was in the country! So it was completely outside of Cork, about 45 mins north of…
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Exploring The Lovely & Grand Country of Ireland (Part One)
I’ve been all over Ireland (including Northern Ireland). My first adventure there was in 2009. I love the idea of Ireland but the actual place is not as satisfying as my imaginations about it. As a child, some of the earliest ideas I had of Ireland came from an Irish Spring soap commercial and a…
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My 6 All-Time Favorite Cities (and why)
Hong Kong New York New Orleans Amsterdam Berlin Portland I am a lover of beauty and music and women and serenity and spontaneity and nature. A quality and feeling of unpredictable-ness, that anything can happen and does happen. I’m not cut out for the pleasant but predictable areas for long. They are nice to unwind…
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Travel Light My Friends… Travel Light
Its cliche but I cannot overestimate how important it is to travel light, especially if you are living in your van, car or RV. Clutter can lead to madness in those situations. You never want to look or feel like a bum or a pack-rat or a hoarder. If you must have stuff, get a…