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Adventures of a GoodMan is my answer to the age-old question: I traveled...now what? In it, I blend digital photographic art with stories chronicling my journeys abroad and at home.
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Hotel Rooms For $3 per Night – You Get What You Pay For!
Early on while backpacking through India and SouthEast Asia, my wife Carrie and I realized that there really wasn’t that much of a difference between a $3 hotel room and a $13 hotel room.
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I Can’t Believe I Stayed at This Place!
Usually, our guesthouse rooms consisted of four bare walls with peeling paint, a bed about as comfortable as a baseball stadium seat, a fan that spun so perilously it was often better to sweat through the night than risk decapitation and a shared outdoor squatty potty with no running water or toilet paper.
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Adios East Coast, I’m Packing my Car and Driving Route 66 Across America to Relocate to San Francisco!
For those who don’t know, I’m on the move again…this time on a road trip across America. After years of talking about it and planning it, I am finally moving out to San Francisco where Carrie just found us a great apartment a block off of Haight Ashbury. So, on …
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Posted in Getting my Kicks on Route 66, Route 66, United States
Tagged America, Car, Collinsville, Driving, Hotel, Illinois, Missouri, Motel, Road Trip, Route 66, USA
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Chungking Mansions: Bedbugs, Racial Tensions and Closet Sized Rooms
About an hour after the bedbug check, I felt something crawling on my neck, slapped it and looked at my blood-stained hand. Sure enough…bedbugs! I guess they must have been in hiding and came out when they smelled my blood, because they were all over the bed and pillows.
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Chasing a Naked Thai Thief into the River Kwai at 3am
“The thief is getting away! Go after him,” Carrie yelled. Pure instinct and adrenalin took control and I jumped over the banister into the waist high river chasing after him. I gave a good run, screaming on the top of my lungs the whole time. “Stop! Thief! Help!”
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The Most Disgusting, Slummy and Awful Place I’ve Ever Stayed…for Five Days
A former whorehouse and home of at least two murders and one ghost, the Overstay featured shattered panes of glass in the hallways, toilets with no pipes, dozens of travelers sleeping on the floor and bedbugs galore. And I stayed there for five nights.
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Rodney. No Post Title Can Sum Up This Man
Our time in Kandy was also marked by our experience with Rodney, the owner of our guesthouse. Rodney first found us at the Colombo train station, fresh off the plane and looking to head to Kandy. He was very nice and helped us buy our tickets, explained what the local …
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How to Stay in a Hotel for $4 – $6 Per Night in India
These guesthouses are less a hotel than a closet-sized room with a bathroom and, if we’re lucky, a hot water shower attached. Usually the room has badly-painted and peeling concrete walls and one florescent light with no insulation.
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