Fun With Robots
My recent foray into using Google Gemini for travel planning led me to another AI experiment. Truthfully, I’ve been slow on the AI uptake. I’ve used it to create illustrations, like the one above (I’ll…
Dancing With Myself
I moved out of my parents’ home and in with Dorothy on my 18th birthday, the first day it was legally permissible. That makes it sound like I was fleeing an abusive home life, which…
Swimming The South China Sea
Pools don’t count. Don’t get me wrong, pools matter, but they don’t count. I’ve arranged pools at every Airbnb it was possible to do so and they have been essential, used daily, at least. Always…
They Doth Protest Too Much
I have been wrestling, sadly, just with myself, with writing about Chicago. I think of this blog as my way of deciphering the environment I’m in when we travel, seeing it as an outsider but…
The More Things Change… The More Different They Are
We started with an idea: we would travel until it was no longer fun, and then we’d stop. We ran on that idea for two years before we realized how profoundly stupid it was. We…
Red Flags
I’m trying to wrap my head around the whole communism thing here. Economically, Vietnam has a distinctly capitalist vibe, although it favors small-scale entrepreneurism over late-stage capitalism’s megafauna. That certainly seems like an improvement over our…
And What Have We Learned?
My dear friend Whip challenged me with a writing prompt. “You’re world travelers now. How have your travels changed your perspective? What are the top five things you’ve learned about yourself or the world on…
Home
Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind. — N.K. Jemisin That’s certainly how we felt about this adventure. And most of our lives. And it’s absolutely true in the broadest…
Jesus Fucking Christ, Just Shoot Me…
I usually start these posts with pictures of our apartment and a description of the wonders of our neighborhood. But Rosarito was never meant to be an actual destination. It was just the cheapest location…
El Museo De Las Momias
It says something about Guanajauto, although I’m not certain precisely what, that its prime tourist attraction is a positively gruesome display of mummies. What distinguishes the Guanajuato mummies from your standard issue Egyptian mummies is…