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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Printed Photos are Permanent: Is Digital?

It’s tough to call those who use a decades-old technology embraced by the majority of the world “early adopters,” but that’s exactly what digital camera owners are.
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Introducing The Symmetry Project and Taxis of SouthEast Asia

A photographic study of the commonalities within civilizations…and taxis. It’s also the inauguration piece of my new series: the Symmetry Project
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5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About San Francisco

The works I’ve selected for my top 5 consist of my absolute favorite photos and stories from my two years of living in San Francisco, California.
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Seven Years of this Site’s Evolution: Told Through Screenshots

Screenshots and long-lost details of the 4 different versions of this site over the years plus all the various lessons I learned along the way.
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Incredible Lightning Storm Photography Over New York City Bridges

Incredible photographs of lightning bolts crashing over the Queensboro Bridge and a Con Edison power plant in New York City. Plus, stories of the experience and how I got the shots.
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Visiting Egypt at 13: An Ode to my Parents

I was 13 and in the middle of a boyhood obsession with everything mummies, pyramids and Egypt. If it happened to the pharaohs, it was pretty much the coolest thing ever. So you can imagine how psyched I was when my parents planned a summer vacation there.
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A Tribute to Hazel

Vanessa, my Sister-in-Law, recently lost her friend. Hazel was a a feisty, excitable and loving pitbull mix. I’ll always cherish this pair of photos I took of Hazel (the one with her nose in the camera). In them, she was accompanied by Vanessa and her other dog, Xena, during …
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Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Stadiums – 5 Days – 1,260 Miles of Driving

Photos, stories & time-lapse videos from 5 baseball stadiums: St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.
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5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About My Adventures in the USA

The five posts featuring my best photographic and storytelling work from life in the United States. Highlights include Route 66, Washington, DC, New York City and California.
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Haggling

Interacting With The Locals in Vietnam is Downright Unpleasant

Nightclubs From the beginning, I had a tough time with most interactions we had with locals in Vietnam. Granted, most of the people we met were some form of shopkeeper and as soon as money was introduced to the equation the nice relationship became mean, rude and angry. However, due …
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Posted on August 16, 2009 by Greg Goodman

Posted in Cities, Culture, Goodnight...And Goodbye, VietNam, Highlights, Scams, Vietnam | Tagged General Observations, Haggling, Hanoi, Ho Chi Min, India & Southeast Asia, Indigenous People, Observations, Sa Pa, Saigon, Sapa, Shopping, Vietnam | Leave a comment

Take a Virtual Trip

Think of this site as a virtual trip around the world.

It's also the magazine of my life and the answer to the question: I traveled; now what?

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