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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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Electric Wires in the Sky & Trolleybuses in San Francisco
When I first moved to San Francisco in 2009, I was very bothered by the “ugly wires” that ran above the streets. Teeming with a strong electric current, these wires power a fleet of zero emission MUNI trolleybuses. Now, I consider them a part of the City’s charm.
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Buddha, Beer, Buses, Bridges & Boats in Laos
I came across the tranquil country of Laos in the middle of a nine month backpacking adventure and just after spending a long time in the hustle-bustle of Thailand. In my travel journal, I referred to it as a “welcome return to the Third World.”
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Posted in Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Laos, My Favorites, Photography
Tagged Buddha, Laos, Photography, Southeast Asia, Transportation, Travel, Travel Journal
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Soaring High Above New York City on an Aerial Tramway
Imagine soaring above the New York City skyline in an aerial cable car every day to get to school. That’s how I spent my childhood growing up on Roosevelt Island: a two mile long and 800 foot wide sliver of land in the East River sandwiched between Manhattan from Queens.
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Beer, Hitchhiking From Mad Max’s Disney Castle and Other Germany Tales
Before there was a site, Adventures of a GoodMan was an e-mail I sent out to friends during my travels with links to snapfish albums for photos. The story featured in this post was one of those e-mails after a solo-backpacking trip through Bavaria, Germany, in 2006. I was 26.
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India’s Havelock Island: Sun, Moon, Waves, Transportation and Tranquility
Fine art photo essay on backpacking featuring 15 photos and a video from Havelock Island, one of India’s Andaman Islands. Boats, Tuk Tuks, sunsets, moonrises, waves, animals and tranquility round out this story.
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Open For Interpretation: What is a Vessel
What do you think of when you hear the word vessel? For me, the first thing that pops into my mind is transportation followed shortly after by something that stores something. With that in mind, here are 10 of my favorite vessel photographs.
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Posted in Photography, Photos With Stories
Tagged Beer, Boats, Greg Goodman, Jars, Photo Essay, Photography, Trains, Transportation, Vessel
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Travel Back in Time on San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars: Photo of the Day
Regardless of where I’m heading in San Francisco, I always try and find a way to take the historic F line streetcar. A lover of the rails since my father and I first set up a Lionel train in my childhood bedroom, I think these rolling museums may be my favorite part of the city.
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Sri Lanka Train Photography
I know I’ve said it many times before in this blog, but if you don’t know it, I love trains. My father and I built a model train town on a balsa-wood table when I was growing up and I’ve loved the rails ever since. So Dad, these train pics …
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Posted in Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Photography, Sri Lanka
Tagged Galle, Photography, Sri Lanka, Train, Transportation
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A Party on my Delayed MUNI Bus
NextMuni.com says my bus arrives in 18 minutes and the next one comes in 32 minutes. Next I check it’s 9 minutes and 23. Then the ETA jumps up to 12/18…then 13/16…and finally 4/4. By the time I get to my stop, both buses are pulling in together. Just another …
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Posted in California, Highlights, My Favorites, Parties, San Francisco, Transportation, United States
Tagged America, California, Parties, Party, Public Transportation, San Francisco, Transportation, USA
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Find Airport Parking in the UK With Holiday Extras
My buddy Nick sent in another great article on finding airport parking in the UK using the Holiday Extras Web site.
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Sleeper Buses, Open Tickets and Cyclo Taxis
As always, trying to get information on traveling like a local from locals was like pulling teeth. For those who managed to actually get on a local bus they had to face super inflated prices, dangers and the occasional incident with police. Fortunately, for once we weren’t trying to travel …
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Posted in Good Morning VietNam!, Highlights, Transportation, Vietnam
Tagged Bus, India & Southeast Asia, Sa Pa, Sapa, Sleep, Sleeper Bus, taxi, Transportation, Vietnam
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The Craziest Traffic on Earth…and Learning to Ride a Motorcycle In It
Traffic in Vietnam is unlike anything I’ve ever seen before. Stop lights are few and far between and motorcycles outnumber everything else. Intersections are the craziest, with all modes of transportation converging together
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Posted in * My Craziest & Best Stories, Good Morning VietNam!, Highlights, Transportation, Vietnam
Tagged Da Lat, Driving, Ho Chi Min, Motorcycle, Mui Ne, Nah Trang, Saigon, Traffic, Transportation, Vietnam
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Tuk Tuks and AC Buses in Cambodia
The primary way for both tourists and locals to get around the country is via air conditioned bus. These range from deluxe first class to ones where the AC barely works. Either way, there is not much to write about these as anyone who has ever taken a long distance …
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Getting Around Laos in Flatbed Trucks, Buses, Boats, Rikshaws and More
Tourist Travel: Buses, Sleeper Buses and Minivans Like most countries, Laos offers tourists pre-packaged ways to get from one popular destination to the next at a price way higher than local transportation. The advantage of taking one of these AC minivans or comfy first class buses is that they pick …
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Leaving the Full Moon Party is an Adventure Too
We spent the night dancing and having a blast before going to bed at around 8am. Reuben returned. Karen came back. But where was Claire? This was the question we were still asking at 7pm when I hopped onto the back of a motorcycle driven by a Thai friend I …
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Traveling Like Locals is Practically Impossible
It didn’t take long for us to realize that Bali was unlike any place we’ve ever traveled before, in that it is nearly impossible to use public transportation. As always, after arriving at the airport we were greeted by scores of taxi drivers. And as always, we politely refused and …
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No Public Transportation For You. Next!
“Can you help me? I seem to have gotten lost in southwest Thailand and am trying to find my way back onto the backpacking trail.” These are the types of thoughts that Carrie and I have had lately after our visit to the Andaman coast. It started in Krabi, where …
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If You Don't Understand Me, Don't Just Say OK
Our final stop in Sri Lanka was the beach town of Hikkaduwa, though it was unlike I have ever been to. The main highway is also the town’s one road with a row of restaurants and guesthouses separating that road from the ocean. Mostly a surfer’s destination, the waves crashing …
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Learning to Drive a Scooter on Dirt Roads and Against Traffic in Auroville
Though it’s only a mile or so from the main road, Sadhana Forest is a bit of a trek to get to and from: especially when the sun is beating down. As such, Carrie and I joined most other volunteers and rented a scooter for under $2 a day during …
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Sunsets, Sunrises and a Nightmare to Get Out of the Southernmost Tip of India
Just under two months into our trip we hit Kanyakumari and the southernmost tip of India where the Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean meet. In our one night there we watched the sunset over all three bodies of water, saw the place where Gandhi’s ashes were laid …
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