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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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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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Posted in California, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Observations, Photography, Route 66, This & That - Musings From the Road, Transportation, United States
Tagged CA, California, Car, Greg Goodman, Los Angles, Lots 'o Travel Snapshots, Mother Road, Photos, Road Trip, Route 66, Santa Monica, USA
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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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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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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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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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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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The Slow Boat Down the Mekong
The Mekong River is the lifeblood of Laos, running through most of the country and providing resources for more than 50 million people. The shores are filled with villages, farms, boats and locals going about their daily lives. A glance into the horizon reveals beautiful mountain ranges, rock formations, blue …
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Getting to the Full Moon Party
With our new friends Claire and Karen in tow, Carrie and I left the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia at 7:30am to head to Koh Phangan, Thailand, for the Full Moon Party. Referred to as the best and biggest party in the world, we had based our entire schedule for Malaysia …
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Posted in ..Border Crossing, Full Moon Party: The Biggest and Best Party in the World, Highlights, Malaysia, My Favorites, SouthEast Asia, Thailand, Transportation, Transportation Woes
Tagged Boat, Koh Phangan, Malaysia, Motorcycle, Perhentian Islands, taxi, Train, Train Travel, Trains
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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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Checkpoints? No Problem…We’re Tourists!
As one might imagine for a country in the middle of a civil war, there are military checkpoints everywhere. The most frequent ones we encountered were on the road when the bus we were traveling in would be stopped and people would have to grab their bags and head through …
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Getting Sri Lanka Around by Bus, Train and Three Wheelers
Getting around Sri Lanka is a bit tough, especially when you leave the bigger cities. The primary method of transportation is what can best be described as a public bus from 1981 with the remains of the same seats it was built with. There are luggage racks that hang from …
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Posted in SouthEast Asia, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka: The Undiscovered Country, Transportation
Tagged Bus, taxi, Trails, Train, Trainsportation, tuk tuk
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A Trio of Crazy Train Stories: Each More Ridiculous Than the Last
The Only Train in India to Ever Leave Early If you go by the saying “when it rains it pours,” then Carrie and I have been stuck in a monsoon lately when it comes to our luck with the trains. It all started when our 9 hour express train from …
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