Transportation

What Does Traffic Look Like in the Philippines?

During my time in the Philippines, I stood or sat on several street corners and filmed the world going by. What I loved most was the contrast between each video.
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Visit My Bus. Have a Tea. Take My Photo. Meet My Friends.

Being paraded around the Amritsar Bus Station by a driver and introduced to all of his friends led me to a collection of stories and photographs of Amritsar’s Bus Drivers.
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An Ode to the Indian Sleeper Train // Poetry, Stories & Pix

From 3am Chai calls to the gentle rythem of the tracks, there’s no better way to spend a night than on an Indian Sleeper Class Train. So inspired was I during my last ride, that I even wrote a poem to go with my stories and photos!
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The Bridges of Rishikesh: How do they Not Collapse? // With Videos

Perioulsy swaying suspension bridges covered in cows, motorcycles, push carts and a never-ending flow of humanity. That about sums up the Laxshman and Ram Jhula bridges in Rishikesh, India.
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No More Riding on the Roof: A Guide to Train Travel in India

Something about the idea of train travel just fascinates me and I have completely romanticized the idea in my head. This works out well in India, where train travel is the easiest way to go.
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How to Ride a Nicaraguan Chicken Bus

Riding a chicken bus in Nicaragua is an eye-opening and often terrifying experience. Barreling down muddy clifside roads and potholed highways. Listening to speeches on religion, politics and parasites
Eating full meals from the vendors at every stop. Hanging on for dear life: from time to time. It’s also the best way to experience the country: a hidden gem of Central America.
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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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Raw Footage of Riding the Rails in South San Francisco

As much as I love the beautiful drive, my favorite way of commuting between San Francisco and San Jose, California, is on CalTrain. Instead of fighting traffic or boredom, I can plop down in a nice comfy seat, take off my shoes, put my feat up and have some “me time.”
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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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California Route 66: From Needles to Santa Monica – the End of the Road

Sure I finished the drive over a year ago, but this blog post has just been sitting on my computer since then. As I continued on Route 66 from Arizona into California, I found that I really had to eliminate the majority of my final stops due to a dinner …
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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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Waterfalls, Train Rides, an Old Friend and Relaxation on the River Kwai

Based on the recommendation of Claire, our Scottish friend that we keep on traveling with, we went straight from the Bangkok airport to the bus station to head to Kanchanaburi, a small town on the River Kwai. We only meant to spend a couple of days there, but the laid …
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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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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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Avoiding Taxi Scams and Roaming the Streets of Ho Chi Min

Our bus arrived in Ho Chi Min (formerly Saigon) in the middle of a monsoon and quickly got into a cab to take us to our hotel. After a few blocks, we noticed that the meter was already very high. We told him to stop and asked what was going …
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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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Border Crossing From Laos to Cambodia at Voen Kham

Based on advice from a fellow traveler, we decided to book an organized ticket all the way from the island of Don Det in Laos to Kratie in Cambodia via the border crossing at Voen Kham. This included a boat to the mainland, a deluxe mini bus to the border …
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Activity Rain Outs and Tuk Tuk Accidents

We knew that we were going to be traveling during monsoon season but, up until arriving at Kratie, it had never affected our plans. However, shortly after arriving the deluge began and we had no choice but to hole up in our hotel for the night instead of doing our …
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A Motorcycle Ride Through Shin Deep Mud to the Flooded Forest of Kompong Pluk

By the time we passed the pool puddle the road was entirely mud. Still, our drivers pressed on: slipping and sliding the whole time. The bikes were all over the road and, despite his best efforts, my bike slid out and fell four times. Fortunately, falling off a bike in a mud pit is more funny than painful so it really wasn’t bad.
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