Jonathon, Rusty, Lynette, and me You’d think a short little puddle jumper flight from Boston to Toronto would be rather simple… oh, but wait, not necessarily. Not if the tail end of a nor’easter’s blowing through, not if Air Canada decides to cancel only one flight for the day- yours, and not if your traveling […]

A few hours after lying out by the pool at our hotel in Panama, I noticed a sunburn in one of the most unlikely of places: my belly button. Yes, it is in fact possible. Who knew. Anyway, for the last five days, I was in Panama with my friends Kathy, Lauren, and Nichole. I […]

At 10:30am Monday, 16 April 2007, I’m going to race the oldest marathon in America! I’ve trained in five different countries and it’s been a great way to explore the streets of Amsterdam, sweat buckets along the beaches in Brazil, make countless laps on a track in Costa Rica, bundle up against the bitter cold […]

Filipe and me, Happy Hour in Knoxville “Ladies and gentlemen, United Airlines flight 7127 with service to Charlotte is overbooked. Would anyone willing to volunteer their seat please come to the podium?” I didn’t even have think. I bee-lined it to the podium. I’ll do almost anything for a free flight. “We’ll have to re-route […]

Cristo Redentor, Rio’s famous statue on top of Corcovado It’s amazing the people you get to meet when you’re traveling on your own… girls from San Diego on a RTW trip of their own, an Irish guy that can’t seem to find his way out of Brazil, a couple of Swiss guys on top of […]

Running, running, the ground beneath my feet drops away and only air is there for the next 550 meters. A short drop in altitude, then the wind catches under the wings of the hang glider. Dehilton and I are soaring over Rio, with Rocinha, the city’s largest favela in the distance, and skyscrapers and Pepino […]