Travel essays by Dave — the stories are free and you get what you pay for.https://thetravelsofdave.com/https://thetravelsofdave.com/an-awesome-wedding/https://thetravelsofdave.com/an-awesome-wedding/An invitation to a wedding in India, which I RSVP'd with a heartfelt "fuck yes." Two days of color and joy, then Goa... a chakra-unblocking shack, an oily straight-razor shave, and inevitable food poisoning.Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/a-long-way-to-go-for-a-pint/https://thetravelsofdave.com/a-long-way-to-go-for-a-pint/I visit Wales (its flag has a dragon — reason enough), drink my way through England's pubs and the Lake District, and attend "Man Camp" with a friend who may be a serial killer.Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/north-of-the-wall/https://thetravelsofdave.com/north-of-the-wall/Sweden's Arctic north "beyond the Wall," where climate change cancels the snow and the lights, dinners are 96% salt, and my dad lands in the ER over two kilos of porcini.Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/bl-d-indeni/https://thetravelsofdave.com/bl-d-indeni/A week in Copenhagen with my oldest friend Woods: Pastries, a living Viking boat museum, an inescapable Danish pop earworm, and a regrettable run-in with Kim's pork cracklings.Sun, 01 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-coronegroni-vacation/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-coronegroni-vacation/Dawn and I take an Italy vacation that unfolds against the dawn of the pandemic: Carnevale, Pompeii, Prague, a dead body in Naples, and a deep, abiding love of the Negroni.Fri, 06 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/ice-baths-in-the-jungle/https://thetravelsofdave.com/ice-baths-in-the-jungle/A Wim Hof retreat in the Costa Rican jungle with daily ice baths, breathwork, honey in the eyes, and campfire conversation ranging from sloths to reptilian overlords.Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/velia-leoni-april-1-1916-january-14-2019/https://thetravelsofdave.com/velia-leoni-april-1-1916-january-14-2019/A loving farewell to my grandma who lived a remarkable life that spanned more than a century.Wed, 30 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/what-you-ve-heard-about-el-salvador-is-probably-wrong/https://thetravelsofdave.com/what-you-ve-heard-about-el-salvador-is-probably-wrong/El Salvador has a reputation, and I found a country that mostly defies it. A short dispatch arguing the place is far better than its headlines.Tue, 11 Dec 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/spleen-sandwich/https://thetravelsofdave.com/spleen-sandwich/Sicily with the gang. Mount Etna and Palermo street food that climaxes with a deep-fried spleen sandwich. Magical.Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/5000-years-ago/https://thetravelsofdave.com/5000-years-ago/Malta: 5,000-year-old temples, a 4D movie that mists your face, terrifying drives through medieval streets, and place names so fun to say they're like Pop Rocks for your mouth.Sun, 01 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/aventuras-nicas-segunda-parte/https://thetravelsofdave.com/aventuras-nicas-segunda-parte/Part two of the Nicaragua road trip with more volcanoes, beaches, and beer, as I make the case that the country everyone questioned is quietly one of the best.Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/aventuras-nicas-primera-parte/https://thetravelsofdave.com/aventuras-nicas-primera-parte/"So... why Nicaragua?" Dawn and I road-trip the country everyone keeps asking us about: Volcanoes, colonial towns, and the start of an unexpectedly great little adventure.Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/belgian-beer-and-other-stuff/https://thetravelsofdave.com/belgian-beer-and-other-stuff/A photo-heavy ramble through England, Amsterdam, Belgium, and Italy. The highlights: a new love of Belgian beer, and getting to wield a broadsword in a castle museum.Sat, 31 Oct 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/turkish-delights/https://thetravelsofdave.com/turkish-delights/Turkey, where the airline loses my underwear for 17 days, the Blue Mosque can't compete with haggling for knock-off shorts, and Dawn threatens me with three creative fates.Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/halfway-home/https://thetravelsofdave.com/halfway-home/Halfway through brewing school, drowning in the 25 liters of beer I make each week, with a side trip to Edinburgh where every pub is mysteriously, suspiciously out of haggis.Sun, 18 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/beer-school/https://thetravelsofdave.com/beer-school/I go to beer school in Sunderland to study brewing, dodge Mackem-vs-Geordie warfare, and learn what once added "body" to a batch.Sun, 30 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/ending-with-machu-picchu/https://thetravelsofdave.com/ending-with-machu-picchu/I save Machu Picchu for last, mostly so nobody'd bust my balls about skipping it. Seven months on the road end in the clouds, with guinea pig that tastes like rabbit.Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/andes-to-amazon/https://thetravelsofdave.com/andes-to-amazon/From a freezing Andean village to the steaming Amazon. Pre-Inca burial grounds, a beer-loving coati, and a sleeping-pill haze in which I win a mug on a Jehovah's Witness bus.Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/unbelievable-uyuni/https://thetravelsofdave.com/unbelievable-uyuni/Three days across Bolivia's salt flats and Martian deserts in a Land Cruiser, turning into "Man Jerky" at altitude, where the guides' phones don't work.Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/up-among-the-clouds/https://thetravelsofdave.com/up-among-the-clouds/Floating among the clouds on Lake Titicaca, a homestay on Amantani, then a border crossing that delights me to no end.Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/sand-dunes-and-guano/https://thetravelsofdave.com/sand-dunes-and-guano/Peru begins with salchipapas (fries, sausage, and a fried egg), dune buggies over endless sand, an island made of bird poop, and me towering over an entire country of hobbits.Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/last-days-in-thailand/https://thetravelsofdave.com/last-days-in-thailand/Last days in Bangkok, including a friend faking a family emergency to quit his job only for the cabbie's "shortcut" to drive him straight past his own school at pickup time.Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/return-to-khao-lak/https://thetravelsofdave.com/return-to-khao-lak/I return to the houses I built years ago, now lived-in, the town transformed. I take the hint it's time to go when the cook drunk-dials my door at 11pm.Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/update-from-siam/https://thetravelsofdave.com/update-from-siam/Life settles into beach, training, and beer in Phuket. The 19-year-olds spar like kangaroos on meth.Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/phuket-where-pheople-come-to-phuck/https://thetravelsofdave.com/phuket-where-pheople-come-to-phuck/I train muay thai in Phuket, running a daily gauntlet of four girly bars to reach the gym and wearing enough Tiger Balm to be smelled across continents.Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/pop-s-wedding/https://thetravelsofdave.com/pop-s-wedding/Back in Bangkok for my friend Pop's wedding: a Thai celebration, old friends, and the start of another long stretch in my adopted second home.Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/bresh-across-the-u-s/https://thetravelsofdave.com/bresh-across-the-u-s/Months of cross-country footage cut into one rambling 15-minute travelogue. For those who prefer movies to books. You're welcome.Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/back-to-the-bay/https://thetravelsofdave.com/back-to-the-bay/The epic U.S. drive closes through Seattle and the redwoods. Final tally: 13,578 miles, 34 microbreweries.Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/from-yellowstone-to-primus/https://thetravelsofdave.com/from-yellowstone-to-primus/Yellowstone's geysers and bison give way to a Primus show out west; nature and Les Claypool in the same unlikely week of the road trip.Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/chicago-and-the-endless-plains/https://thetravelsofdave.com/chicago-and-the-endless-plains/I prove, scientifically, that friends make you fat, then cross the coma-inducing corn of Iowa and South Dakota toward a beard-measuring showdown with Mount Rushmore.Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-north-eh/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-north-eh/A week in Canada, where the people are unsettlingly nice, Ottawa offers little but drunks outside grocery stores, and I catch my first-ever fish.Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/bonjour-quebec/https://thetravelsofdave.com/bonjour-quebec/Foggy Cape Cod, a regrettable pint of maple syrup, and a French-Canadian border guard who doesn't like the look of me and then Montreal, mid-protest and electric.Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/now-entering-new-england/https://thetravelsofdave.com/now-entering-new-england/Into the Northeast: The worst beer Dogfish Head ever made, my theory that New Jersey Guidos are basically Orcs, and the legend of a strip club called the Golden Banana.Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/goodbye-confederacy/https://thetravelsofdave.com/goodbye-confederacy/Up the Southern coast through haunting Savannah and Charleston, past too many Confederate flags, to Myrtle Beach: A 15-mile strip mall I describe in withering, loving detail.Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/civil-war-civil-rights-and-delta-blues/https://thetravelsofdave.com/civil-war-civil-rights-and-delta-blues/Through Memphis and the Delta: Beale Street blues, the gut-punch of the Civil Rights Museum, and Graceland, proof we should be glad Elvis chose music over interior decorating.Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/across-the-southwest-and-route-66/https://thetravelsofdave.com/across-the-southwest-and-route-66/Alone on Route 66, I start talking to my car, watch a man fail to eat a 72-oz steak, and confirm that Oklahoma is, in fact, boring as fuck.Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/leaving-california/https://thetravelsofdave.com/leaving-california/The road trip rolls out of California: Big Sur's coast and a San Diego beer pilgrimage, and the Gaslamp Quarter.Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/every-day-is-saturday/https://thetravelsofdave.com/every-day-is-saturday/I quit my job with nothing lined up to go drive around the country. My grandma's verdict: "You have mental problems. You need to see a doctor." And so the road trip begins.Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/carnevale-di-viareggio-2012/https://thetravelsofdave.com/carnevale-di-viareggio-2012/Back to Viareggio for Carnevale: Four-story mechanized floats, costumes, and a hometown that shuts down for a month to party.Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/two-gigs-one-week/https://thetravelsofdave.com/two-gigs-one-week/Two shows in one week with the band. My brief, sweaty stint as a working musician, in pictures.Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/kaka-bloc/https://thetravelsofdave.com/kaka-bloc/I return to finish the Cité Soleil clinic and get rechristened by a pack of pantsless six-year-olds as "Kaka Bloc."Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/a-week-in-pictures/https://thetravelsofdave.com/a-week-in-pictures/A camera carried through one ordinary San Francisco week with open mics, street food, lowriders, homebrew, and far too many photos of the office.Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/ridin-the-trans-mongolian/https://thetravelsofdave.com/ridin-the-trans-mongolian/The whole Beijing-to-Moscow odyssey stitched into one video. Feel the power of the Panda.Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-paris-of-siberia/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-paris-of-siberia/Across the Russian border to Irkutsk, the "Paris of Siberia" where the train nearly leaves Mae behind for good.Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/everyone-loves-a-panda/https://thetravelsofdave.com/everyone-loves-a-panda/The Trans-Mongolian begins in Beijing, where three of us in panda hats become genuine celebrities, the air is "burnt sienna," and the Forbidden Palace has a basketball court.Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/helping-tammy/https://thetravelsofdave.com/helping-tammy/Two weeks building a clinic in Cité Soleil with cement mixers that turn out to be "two guys with a shovel," a robbery at gunpoint, and a P.S. asking my grandma not to read paragraph two.Fri, 06 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/fun-with-meds/https://thetravelsofdave.com/fun-with-meds/I prep for Haiti by buying 32 pounds of Epsom salts and yelling "I need something for ringworm!" across a crowded drug store.Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/a-slice-of-delicate-pie/https://thetravelsofdave.com/a-slice-of-delicate-pie/My Led Zeppelin cover band plays its first gig. "I laughed, I cried, it was much better than Cats" and there were free beers backstage.Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/ichigo-ichie/https://thetravelsofdave.com/ichigo-ichie/A short, once-in-a-lifetime stop in Japan. A quieter bookend to the Asia trip, and a phrase I can't quite shake.Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-marriage-of-vincenzo/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-marriage-of-vincenzo/Back to Thailand for Vince's beachside wedding preceded by a bachelor party best left in multiple-choice form, and a muay thai session against a 6'6" Kiwi who just kept punching my face.Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/my-200-dollar-cup-of-coffee/https://thetravelsofdave.com/my-200-dollar-cup-of-coffee/A cup of coffee in Hoi An somehow becomes a $200 suit, railroaded by a tiny tailor with raptor-talon toenails. Plus Sapa's blanket-sellers, who'd make terrifying cold-callers.Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/hijacked-in-hanoi/https://thetravelsofdave.com/hijacked-in-hanoi/My first three hours in Hanoi: ambushed by four giggling students, fed ice cream, photographed with fashion models, and nearly flattened playing human Frogger across the street.Tue, 08 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/all-that-for-four-minutes/https://thetravelsofdave.com/all-that-for-four-minutes/I train for months and drop 20 pounds as "Hungry Dave a.k.a. Asshole Dave," then step into the ring for an amateur muay thai bout that lasts all of four minutes.Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/horizontal-rain-and-a-bunch-of-old-cathedrals/https://thetravelsofdave.com/horizontal-rain-and-a-bunch-of-old-cathedrals/Iceland (cold, windy, like a faked Mars landing), then Italy, where every town's attraction is a cathedral and my dad ambushes my vegetarian friends with ten kinds of grappa.Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/four-days-in-havana/https://thetravelsofdave.com/four-days-in-havana/Four days in Havana on a whim. A Russian-jet flight on Cubana Airlines, warm beer, daiquiris, and a baseball game that dissolves into chaos.Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/bay-to-blazers/https://thetravelsofdave.com/bay-to-blazers/San Francisco's Bay to Breakers — 7 miles that are 3% race and 97% public depravity.Thu, 22 May 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/valentine-s-day-pillow-fight/https://thetravelsofdave.com/valentine-s-day-pillow-fight/Because nothing says "I love you" like beating the hell out of strangers in a public square.Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/all-i-ve-got-are-these-damn-nepalese-coins/https://thetravelsofdave.com/all-i-ve-got-are-these-damn-nepalese-coins/I trudge toward Annapurna Base Camp at 14,000 feet, drinking beer that tastes like a urine sample and plotting Mark's death the whole way up.Sun, 03 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-tube-of-caulk/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-tube-of-caulk/How a single tube of caulk, dropped down an air vent, snowballed into jackhammers, a $500 repair, and a winter with no bathroom sink.Sat, 13 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-world-cup-and-the-running-of-the-bulls/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-world-cup-and-the-running-of-the-bulls/Three weeks chasing the World Cup across Germany in a beat-up Volvo, then running with the bulls in Pamplona. Lesson learned: bulls are big, and Max won't wait up for you.Sun, 02 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/a-final-word/https://thetravelsofdave.com/a-final-word/Six months in Thailand end. I reflect on a country abandoning itself to tourism, a wall of fish on a scuba trip, and why selling a girl named Porn is perfectly legal.Thu, 16 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/khao-lak-asstravaganza/https://thetravelsofdave.com/khao-lak-asstravaganza/With the houses nearly done, we keep morale up through an escalating inter-team mooning campaign that culminates in the first-ever Ass Pyramid launched from a moving truck.Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/happy-2549/https://thetravelsofdave.com/happy-2549/Christmas in Thailand brings me a hot shower at last, an epic battle with a four-inch spider, and accidentally buying menstrual medicine for a cough.Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/ton-sai-blows/https://thetravelsofdave.com/ton-sai-blows/Pouring concrete, digging out a septic ring packed like Thanksgiving cranberry sauce, and inventing increasingly absurd lies for the Monday volunteer meeting.Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/stop-listen-and-love/https://thetravelsofdave.com/stop-listen-and-love/A more reflective stretch in Khao Lak talking about the people behind the houses, the friendships forming, and why I keep choosing the shovel.Mon, 21 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/from-dean-to-queen/https://thetravelsofdave.com/from-dean-to-queen/I get promoted to project manager under Dean, a Bobcat-wielding psycho and end up in drag for Halloween. Regrets ensue.Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/evil-chan/https://thetravelsofdave.com/evil-chan/Building houses under Chan, a giggling Thai foreman who treats near-fatal cement-mixer accidents as comedy. Plus a busload of flight attendants which is nothing like the Playboy fantasy.Tue, 18 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/from-thailand-with-love/https://thetravelsofdave.com/from-thailand-with-love/I arrive to build houses for tsunami survivors in Khao Lak and promptly earn the nickname "Septic Boy," see a Patpong ping pong show, and manage to get constipated in Thailand.Mon, 03 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/carnevale-di-viareggio/https://thetravelsofdave.com/carnevale-di-viareggio/Carnevale in my hometown of Viareggio: a month-long blowout of giant papier-mâché floats. Just like Rio, but a lower risk of venereal disease.Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/santa-s-boy-toy-a-christmas-story/https://thetravelsofdave.com/santa-s-boy-toy-a-christmas-story/I volunteer as a Christmas elf on a whim and accidentally become the North Pole's heartthrob.Tue, 28 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/stefano-s-wedding-and-el-masturbador/https://thetravelsofdave.com/stefano-s-wedding-and-el-masturbador/Five days before the wedding: no tux, no reception, no rings. I best-man through the chaos, a garden-hose shower called "The Tube," and an unforgettable Paris hostel roommate.Fri, 10 Sep 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/the-foot-f-ing-master/https://thetravelsofdave.com/the-foot-f-ing-master/Diving Ko Tao, surviving the chaos of the Full Moon party, and a growing conviction that beach buckets are personally out to injure me.Fri, 11 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/no-pai-no-gain/https://thetravelsofdave.com/no-pai-no-gain/I turn 31, survive an off-road motorbike meltdown to a remote Thai village, and take a Thai massage that ends with a knee to the gut.Wed, 26 May 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/a-brief-moment-of-introspection/https://thetravelsofdave.com/a-brief-moment-of-introspection/Three miserable days in Singapore before Thailand rescues the trip with tuk-tuks, a cooking class, and dangerously cheap Beer Chang.Fri, 14 May 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/i-know-it-s-been-a-while/https://thetravelsofdave.com/i-know-it-s-been-a-while/Into Australia's red center, where Uluru looks suspiciously like a giant nipple, the flies are relentless, and Alice Springs out-nowheres Needles, California.Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/how-i-almost-won-500-bucks/https://thetravelsofdave.com/how-i-almost-won-500-bucks/I enter an Australian pole-dancing contest for $500 and still only take third. Beaten, I maintain, by two words: fake boobs.Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/greetings-from-oz/https://thetravelsofdave.com/greetings-from-oz/I throw myself off a 440-foot bungy (and scream like a little girl) and draft my presidential platform: the Speedo Bill.Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/happy-anniversary/https://thetravelsofdave.com/happy-anniversary/A milestone I mark on the road from New Zealand, between the adrenaline and the next ferry.Mon, 15 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/two-chubby-canadian-girls/https://thetravelsofdave.com/two-chubby-canadian-girls/Whitewater sledging, which I'd define as sledding plus drowning plus slamming into rocks. After the first rapid I didn't cheer... I wept uncontrollably.Thu, 04 Mar 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/this-weather-sucks/https://thetravelsofdave.com/this-weather-sucks/New Zealand turns on the monsoon, so I make the best of it: glowworms (technically glow-maggots), getting rolled down a hill in a giant ball, and Roto-Vegas minus the casinos.Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/greetings-from-auckland/https://thetravelsofdave.com/greetings-from-auckland/A week in Fiji with bathwater seas, terrifyingly friendly locals, and a kava ceremony that left my tongue numb.Thu, 12 Feb 2004 00:00:00 GMThttps://thetravelsofdave.com/europe-summer-2003/https://thetravelsofdave.com/europe-summer-2003/Europe, by my own summary: a lot of old shit, and not everybody speaks English.Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT