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The Run About Challenge in Vung Tau, Vietnam - Part 1

The Run About Challenge in Vung Tau, Vietnam – Part 1

The Run About Challenge is an interactive and fun way to explore the city Vung Tau, Vietnam, and maybe some other locations around the world too! We hid various clues in several different locations around Vung Tau, in a challenge based scavenger hunt around the city! Some of the clues will be found near the iconic symbols of Vung Tau and others will be laying around in the hidden gems tucked away…

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Vietnam's Most Visible Problem - Education on Plastic Pollution

Vietnam’s Most Visible Problem – Education on Plastic Pollution

It wont take you long to find out what Vietnam’s most visible problem is. Almost anywhere you go, you will find peoples trash and garbage strewn about with a complete sense of carelessness. From the mountains and the jungles, to the sandy beaches and the islands, there is a mountain of plastic piling up almost anywhere you go. What was once considered clean, natural, and beautiful, is now…

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Visa Runs to Cambodia - Get a New Vietnam Tourist Visa

Visa Runs to Cambodia – Get a New Vietnam Tourist Visa

Drink, Gamble, Visa Run

Visa runs are always a pain in the ass if your living abroad. This is the cheapest and easiest way to get a new 3 month single entry tourist visa for Vietnam, and you get to drink and gamble in the process! Make your visa run to Bevet Cambodia, fun!

Living in Ho Chi Minh City off of a 3 month tourist visa? You are probably familiar with having to do a regular visa run, or…

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Happiness Rocks

Chihuahua, Mexico

The strait and narrow road trailed on for what seemed like days. Other than the occasional variety of vividly colored cacti, there wasn’t much else to keep my attention while driving in this part of Northern Mexico. The sun just seems to have ravaged the land, searing its mark into everything it touched. Fields of decrepit plants and shrubs desperately creep out from the…

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Gringo Loco

Somewhere near Villa Ahumada, Mexico.

Red and Blue lights flashed into my rear view mirror. Coupled with that dreaded siren ringing out into the dry desert air, a noise that could make your heart burst strait out of your chest for even the slightest of wrong doings. “Aw fuck”, I said to myself, slowly pulling to the side of the dirt road riddled with holes and cracks. There was nothing around us…

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The Valley of Death

The Valley of Death

Ciudad Juarez – Mexico “Paso Del Norte”

Within seconds, the world as I once knew turned itself upside down. Spoken words and sentences no longer made any sense. Street signs were a scramble of words mashed together in foreign formations. Even the air seemed to sting as it brushed across my skin. It was thick, coating the horizon in a musty yellow tint. The odor of pungent rubbish leached from the…

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Bottomless Lakes

Bottomless Lakes – New Mexico

I felt as if I were floating somewhere in the middle of the doldrums, far away from the lands we know and the people we trust. Completely alone, yet perfectly relaxed to a state of meditation. Body submerged under lightly chilled waters, eyes closed, breathes resonating deep inside my lungs, delicately compressed by the hug of hydration surrounding my body. I…

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Americas 51st State

Roswell – New Mexico

Dark clouds gobbled up the sun like some kind of ravenous beast, engulfing the horizon in a torrential haze of black water and ice. A barrage of sleet and rain laid waist to the path ahead of me. Suddenly ambushed by the gods above, smiting us with a wall of wild wet fury. Almost as if to say, “Turn back, you don’t know what you’re getting you’re getting yourself into!” I…

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An Extra Terrestrial Experience

An Extra Terrestrial Experience

The White Sands – New Mexico

Before long, the car sunk into the seas of white sand behind us. This colorless world of vast rolling hills soon swallowed us whole as we ventured deeper into the heart of the desert. The only remnants of reality remained in the vibrant colors shimmering in through the atmosphere looming overhead. The insipid color of the sands seem to intensify the vibrant colors of…

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An Unexpected Journey

The White Sands – New Mexico

A half empty bottle of overly priced tequila lied cocked to the side in the center console of the car, the liquid rumbling elegantly to the rhythms of the lonely desert road stretching out before us. We sipped casually on the bottle, cruising at a comfortable, but quick 100mph. Making our way deeper and deeper into the New Mexican sun. My hand sliced through the gusts…

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Traveling Across Spain on 100 Euros

Traveling Across Spain on 100 Euros

First of all, lets break this down. We have 100 Euros, lets say 30 days total (give or take), and for example purposes we are traveling from Zaragoza to Malaga, considering this is the route I took during my 100 Euro excursion across Spain! So, this leaves us only 3.33 Euros a day! Shit, this sounds like it just got a bit harder than it sounds right? Well, yes, I never said this was necessarily…

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How to Road Trip Colorado on a Budget

How to Road Trip Colorado on a Budget

A few months ago, I spent a week visiting unique places around Colorado, USA, on a “social traveling experiment” to see how far I could get on just $100! To my surprise, this got me much further than I originally had imagined. Starting in Evergreen, Colorado, I was able to make it south to Colorado Springs, over to Aztec, New Mexico, all the way across to Spanish Fork, Utah, then finally, a…

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Go and Get Lost: Hanging Lake

Go and Get Lost: Hanging Lake

Day #7 – Hanging Lake – Total Budget: $7.27

I found myself in a hotel parking lot somewhere in Parachute the next morning. It wasn’t the most ideal location to sleep, but after a few slices of moderately fresh pizza, and an exhausting drive across Utah with some obviously blatant psychotic chick, I just needed to sleep a bit. As the sun crept up once again, we begin yet another day of our…

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5 Things Americans Don't Understand About America

5 Things Americans Don’t Understand About America

Why am I fat?

Well, considering there are cheeseburgers raining from the sky in this country, I shouldn’t have to explain my self much. Does your food taste disgusting, a bit bitter, maybe on the sour side? Fuck it! Chuck it in the deep fryer! That’ll do the trick! It’s almost the equivalent to saying, “Fuck it, zap me with that defibrillator thing, lets see what happens! Hey, while you’re at…

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Go and Get Lost: Moab

Go and Get Lost: Moab

Day #6 – Moab – Total Budget: $8.64

The nicest accommodations are always the most difficult to leave, especially when you’re going camping in freezing cold, windy weather the next night, and two gorgeous girls just checked into that amazing yurt right after you. I remember trying not to think about the cold wind sitting next to my dwindling fire, when those two girls came to mind, I couldn’t help…

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Go and Get Lost: CC Blue, Ridgway

Go and Get Lost: CC Blue, Ridgway

Day #5 – CC Blue – Total Budget: $8.64

As I made my way north through the long stretch of San Juan Mountains, a feeling of nostalgia took over. Taking the 550 is one road you simply cannot forget in Colorado. It weaves in all directions through the valleys, and quite literally, over the mountaintops too! The drive passes right by Mt. Eolus, San Miguel, The Twin Sisters, Handies Peak, and then Mt.…

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Go and Get Lost: Aztec

Go and Get Lost: Aztec

Day #4 – Aztec – Total Budget: $25.64

As I scanned the map on my phone, the name of a town struck me instantaneously, it was a place called Aztec! Well, that sounds cool! But it’s in New Mexico… Welp, I guess the rules are meant to be broken. Let’s Go and Get Lost in Aztec, New Mexico!

*Rule: Rules are meant to be broken.

It was Easter morning when I woke up, and to my surprise, I had my very own…