Tne newest Wired has a story claiming that as of January 1, 2007 (tomorrow) all new American passports will have a radio frequency chip emb...
There's something perverse about a non meat-eater writing a guide to Argentine restaurants. Meat is the biggest deal down there. Everyon...
I'm agnostic on Franz Ferdinand's music. Their manager is an old friend of mine; otherwise I probably wouldn't have ever heard o...
Although the sturdy and intrepid New York traveler I met in the Ushuaia airport last week turned out to be a Republican nutcase, this isn...
When I originally decided to go to Argentina, it was the remoteness of Tierra del Fuego that drew me. As I explained earlier, I just wanted ...
Today's Washington post , on one of the busiest flying days in history, has a story about the deadly impact of jet lag . The story is ba...
Howie at Iguazo after the "safe incident" in Buenos Aires The most regular Google hits this site gets come from people finding a p...
A lot has changed in my life. When I first started my travels I was hitchhiking and sleeping wherever I could find a free spot to curl up. I...
I usually like to travel to places with interesting and developed cultures. Places like India and Egypt, not to mention France and Italy, ha...
I started the AroundTheWorldBlog because readers of Down With Tyranny would grumble whenever I'd write about my travel experiences. On ...
When I flew into Buenos Aires from the U.S., the plane didn't fly over the city and I never got to see a bird's eye view. I walk a l...
A few days ago I was marvelling at the squalor and backwardness of the road from Iguazu/Ciudad del Este to Asunción. It reminded me of India...
The Chaco takes up about 60% of Paraguay and has less than 3% of the population. It is desolate and beyond what we think of as backward or ...
When I made my big VW van trip to India in 1969-71 I remember this bizarre sensation I got sometimes, especially in Afghanistan and Nepal, t...
You don't think being in the country for like 8 hours makes me an expert yet? Me neither; but until today I don't think I recall eve...
I rented an apartment in Buenos Aires so I could get the feel for living here. Every morning I prepare breakfast, pretty much the same stuff...
All through the nightmare of Bush's illegitimate regime I have continued to travel. I have written about how uncomfortable people I'...
Manifestacion by my favorite Argentine painter, Antonio Berni I forget so much all the time-- and more now than I used to-- that I figure I...
