Finding My Fix: Chronicles of a Travel Junkie

“Hey, I’m at third and eighth, you’d better be ready when I get there!”  Those were Iggy’s words.  And we had our snowball fight in the middle of the Bowery!  We tried to build a snow man, but the snow was too powdery.

A man pulled up with his window rolled down just as I was flinging snow in Iggy’s face.

“You’re not gonna take that are you, man?”

“No,” and he tackled me in the middle of the street.

The light changed and the man drove away saying, “have fun making up!”

Now, wait a second, what…?  No wonder it’s so fard to find any mens in NY; they all think I’m taken.

SO here are some photos from this record breaking snow complete with thunder and lightning and 60mph winds that just stopped about an hour ago:

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I arrived in Hawaii on a Wednesday, and took the shuttle to the Beachside Hostel. I dragged my suitcase inside. By this time, I had dragged both a backpack and giant suitcase through four different airports, up and down too many stairs to count, and had emptied them in the middle of the Wellington airport to throw away half their contents. I knew by then that on my next trip I would return to my minimalist roots.

“Hi, I made a reservation here. At least I hope it’s here.”

“You hope?” The desk attendant looked at me, eyebrow raised. “What’s your name again?”

Turned out my hopes would not be fulfilled today. This was the Beachside Hostel; I had wanted the Seaside Hostel. I didn’t feel like lugging my crap, which at this point is what it was to me, to the next place, so I settled into the room that to my disappointment was of the mildly roach infested genre and had a bunk bed that rocked and squeaked like a ship in a storm. But you try not to think about these things too much. [read on]

This is the last of the South Island stories and photographs in this series (hopefully there will be more someday). I hope you enjoy. It was the last leg of my journey before I'd head back to Wellington to take my ... [Continue reading this entry]

NEWS: I am back in New York City. I have bought my tickets to Paris and back from Stockholm, so I'm definitely going to be in Europe from May 11 till August 29! But where? I don't yet know. So I ... [Continue reading this entry]

The bus from Queenstown to Milford Sound via Te Anau left from the i-site at a brutal hour in the morning. Luckily my sleep schedule had adapted itself to the Intercity bus schedule and so I wasn't too terribly groggy. ... [Continue reading this entry]

Bus drivers, Museums, Bungy, and a scenic bike-ride I had a good way to go in the Atomic Shuttle before reaching my next destination, Queenstown. The ride was full, and the Japanese and Korean girls I had ridden with to Hokitika ... [Continue reading this entry]

It's been a while since I last updated, and things are getting all out of order, but I'm doing my best to put up the last of the photos and stories (there are about 6 posts worth left to publish). So, ... [Continue reading this entry]

My last day in Bangkok, I wasn't entirely unhappy to leave. I'll admit it. I was ready to get home. I pretty much just spent the day walking around, then sitting outside a Bon Pan at the Central shopping mall ... [Continue reading this entry]

Alright, so where did I leave off...? My flight from Seoul on Korean Air was long, but not unbearable. It was the first of a pair of nights I would be spending on airplanes. I managed to sleep during a good ... [Continue reading this entry]

These photos were all taken in the part of the city I do NOT like, the part I was staying in, the first part I saw. Some of them almost remind me of a nightmare I've had, the one where ... [Continue reading this entry]