Articles about travel, language, and culture
I graduated with a degree in undecided In August of 2009 I set out from Oregon on an unknowable journey. They’d given me a bachelor’s degree, and with it I knew that I didn’t...
It was early September when we found ourselves traveling across the Puget Sound on the Edmond’s Ferry. Across the way was the Olympic Peninsula, where in Port Townsend the 38th Annual Wooden Boat Festival would take place that...
In 2014 I was in the area of Port Townsend, WA during their annual Wooden Boat Festival. So I went. Unfortunately there’s not much information on the festival (as evidenced by the lackluster Wikipedia...
What is Travel Drawing The primary purpose of this website is to share my continuous travel narrative and travel drawing. Travel drawing has a meaning what understanding is intuitive, you travel, you draw. Mostly...
A Realistic Hitchhiker’s Guide “Hitchhiking”, “hitching”, “aventon”, “en stop”, “rite”, “lif”, “autostop”, “carona”, “a dedo”, “jalon”, and “thumbing” all refer to traveling by flagging down rides on the side of the road or by asking...
People say you can’t travel if you don’t have cash. This is false. You can travel on nothing. Hell, you can travel on debt even. I’ve spent plenty of time without cash on me....
In case readers are curious, I thought I’d write briefly about what to take hitchhiking. My advice is to travel light. I have most everything I’ll need in most climates, except the extreme colds. I...
How do you travel the world for free? If you are on this keyword-packed page about how to travel the world for free, then you are probably expecting to find out how it’s done....
Hitchhiker Books Galore There are quite a few hitchhiker books on the market. It is no wonder, of course, that the most popular of these is “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” by Douglas Adams....
What the hell is “location independence”? People who travel and live in different places regardless of their work have come up with a term to denote their newfound freedom. They call themselves “location independent.”...
