humor

Between language barriers, culture wars, and strange people at the airport, your trip is bound to be rife with laughter.

Part 0.2 Finding Shirley
Our story continues in Gladstone, QLD. I’d been there for four months and looked for a world travelling motorbike. So far, I’d come up short. Very short. I had dialled my options down to 2 types of motorbike. The Suzuki DRZ400 and the Kawasaki KLR650. Both bikes had excellent pedigree’s for world travel. They are easy to fix, have good fuel consumption and most importantly, can be treated like absolute trash and keep going. I planned to take as much care of my bike as possible, but I also understood that my 'best' wasn't very good.
By Jake Rice5 years ago in Wander
Part 0: A world travelling motorbike rider
I'm sitting in my cosy one-bedroom on the 2nd floor of the building with views of a main road in Batumi, Georgia. I can hear the traffic and the street lights shine into our bedroom at night. My girlfriend (a Russian named Ksenia, who I met on the trip ;) is out with friends. I'm about to leave also.
By Jake Rice5 years ago in Wander
the sheer terror of navigating Europe's tiny streets
Here I stand contemplating the entire size of the two way street It is equal to one side of the road on the other side of the world
By Novel Allen5 years ago in Wander
Adventures of the Airport
I used to love the thrill of an Airport. The hustle of people rushing from one end to the other. The frantic sprint of the couple who is about to miss their connecting flight. The excited chatter of a small child carrying an overstuffed backpack containing games, cards, paper, snacks, drinks, change of clothes- all for a one-hour flight. The excited screams of families reunited together at the gates- permanently blocking the way of fellow travelers, but no one 'yelled' yelled at them.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins5 years ago in Wander
Who's Up For A Road Trip
Covid-19 is finally starting to be under control, and travel restrictions are lessening every month. With any luck, by 2022, we will be back to a normal, or as close to normal as we can be, post-pandemic world. I don't know a single person that doesn't want to see that happen. As Travel restrictions eventually come to an end, it's time to think about those long-postponed travel plans.
By Jason Morton5 years ago in Wander
Bear White Knuckles
"Someday I'm gonna hike up that mountain and climb that fire tower." These were the resolute, determined words of my friend Jim.
By Jaime Winter5 years ago in Wander
It is officially Fall in Alaska
The weather has changed here in Alaska. 2 weeks ago, half the city was walking around like dehydrated red lobsters, trying to tell ourselves that we LOVE 90-degree weather.
By Rose Loren Geer-Robbins5 years ago in Wander
Beware the Vagina-Eating Bears
Trying to convince my wife of ten years that I will live out of a car when I go to the States has been difficult. To her, if you don't have a house to live in, you are nothing, you are homeless, you are not healthy, safe, or a member of society.
By Jason Weiland5 years ago in Wander
Curry for Christmas in Kathmandu
The first Christmas away from home, is always a somewhat surreal experience, it’s never Christmas as you know it. Here there was no snow, no cold, no Christmas trees, no decorations, no presents and no Christmas tasty treats. But that’s totally fine. I mean what do you expect? You’re not in a Christian country, it’s not celebrated here so if you want Christmas, you have to do it yourself.
By Sh*t Happens - Lost Girl Travel5 years ago in Wander
Eat Sheep
I ate a sheep penis--here's why. It was the summer of 2009, and I was on Snack Street, or Wangfujing, in Beijing. Some of my friends and I had signed up to go to China, for what the school called “experiential learning.” I didn’t think I would really learn anything through traveling with my buddies, but I was wrong. Most of the places I visited in China barely remain in my memory. But not Snack Street.
By MG5 years ago in Wander
Eating Around The World
For almost thirty years I was a globe trotter. My job was licensing cartoons and documentaries for broadcast on global government and private stations in close to one hundred countries and overseeing product licensing of the comic characters in the USA and countries where the programs were broadcast. I was the first American woman to have this position and was Vice President of Marvel Comics and later Executive Vice President of Filmation Studios. A few of the characters I represented are still famous today, such as Spiderman, Captain America, Hulk, Ironman, The Fantastic Four, Silver Surfer, He-Man, She-Ra, and Fat Albert..
By Alice Donenfeld-Vernoux5 years ago in Wander
Confessions of a Backpacker
For better AND worse, I chose an author by the name of Charles Bukowski to fill the position of strong male role model left vacant when my single father chose the bottle over me. "Find what you love and let it kill you" is an incredibly attractive turn of phrase to adopt as a personal mantra, and thankfully is equally difficult to accomplish when youth is in your corner. I have spent the majority of my adult life scouring the planet in search of that "Bukowskian bullet", but despite finding my fair share of them, every time I pull the metaphorical trigger, the chamber's been empty. The following tale is but a taste of my findings from a career of world wandering.
By Christopher Jones5 years ago in Wander