Category: Tangents

Throw Away Your Kindles 12

Throw Away Your Kindles, Rally in the Streets

It was the perfect excuse. A future life (or at least a year) spent on the road, traveling light. All earthly belongings would have to fit into a 40L backpack, making all non-essentials perfect...

The Lady Tastes Antigua Guatemala 6

Introducing The Lady Tastes Antigua Guatemala

As a traveling couple, or more generally as human beings with a pulse, we have been unrestrained in establishing our love of sugary treats. Wherever we go, our eyes are busy taking in not...

Notes from a Hospital in Guatemala 6

Notes from a Hospital in Guatemala

Tremors It starts again. At first a soft rumble spreading through muscle, gathering speed and strength. Then begin the jolts. A finger twitches, an arm spasms. There is still some control though. A fist...

Hairy Capitalism 2

Hairy Capitalism

My education has since its inception been directed towards understanding and eventually exploiting the capitalist system to my family’s advantage. Alas, an unflinching desire to read mostly fiction and a genetic malfunction which imbued...

The sun and the sea 16

Belly

Spring had come sooner than expected. It had been a year of strange occurrences – we’d already had an eclipse, a rainbow without rain, a minor earthquake and no weddings whatsoever -, so when the...

Not all those who wander are lemmings 56

13 Uninspirational Travel Quotes

“Not all those who wander are lost”, wrote J. R. R. Tolkien when he wasn’t chasing hobbits. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page”, wrote Saint...