My traveling companion has finally taken the time to sit down and sort through his photos. So may I present, back by popular demand, The Cow Around-The-World, now with an updated photo gallery. If you have no idea why a grown man is carrying a stuffed cow around-the-world, see About the Cow. Click […]

(Hong Kong, China) See the previous post about The King of Karaoke, before watching this video. Shot in Neway Karaoke in Mong Kong, Hong Kong, China, the group includes my 59-year old American parents (the stars), my brother, myself and my friends from China, Hong Kong, Cameron and the US. You have to watch it twice, because it’s funny for two reasons.

(Hong Kong, China) My “To Do” list for my trip around-the-world is long, but it does not include the goal: “Shut Down A Post Office,” yet somehow as fate would have it there I was at the postal counter in the Tsim Sa Tsu district of Hong Kong nearly positioned, oblivious to me, to do […]

A guest traveler video post from Davey Dance, a friend from college. This will make you laugh, I promise.

I will finish up my official work with Rotary International as a Rotary Ambassador this coming week. While I am shedding one ‘ambassador’ title, I’ve just recently gained another. I’ve officially become a ‘minted’ Mentos Ambassador.

(Tokyo, Japan) How can one of the world’s smartest countries use such terrible English? Some insight into the sometime irreverent, sometimes puzzling, and always funny world of Engrish that we found in traveling through Japan.

There are many surprising and fascinating things about Japan that I was not expecting upon arrival. One of the things I had the most fun with was the vending machines. The Japanese Vending Machine Manufactures Association (I am not making that up) reports that there is somewhere in the realm of 5.5 million vending machines in all of Japan, roughly 1 per 23 citizens of Japan–or that means 1 roughly every 2 feet in Tokyo.

Travel constantly reminds me that we must always have a sense of humor. To help provide you a few laughs, may I present the first of an ongoing series, called “Things That Make Me Laugh.” Here is Part I of the Japan edition.

The logic goes like this: If Japan invented sushi, then they must have the best sushi in the world. To find the best sushi in Japan, you must find the best fish. To find the best fish, you must find the best fish market. And thus if you find the best sushi bar at the best fish market in the country that invented sushi, then you would therefore be eating, “The Best Sushi In The World.”

A few years ago my friend Andrew ventured to Germany to study abroad, regularly senting email update to his family and friends back home. Reading about his wild adventure and seeing his postcard perfect pictures, I began to notice one day the he was not in a single picture. I began to suspect a hoax—he wasn’t in Germany in fact, I begin to think–he was simply hiding in a cold stale dorm room somewhere else creatively writing about a trip that didn’t really existed.