Travel

RANDOM MOMENTS FROM THE LAST FEW MONTHS
10 years ago
Me DJing a rooftop party in Harlem, hoping to coax Spring to finally arrive. Froze my ass off, but the mojitos were excellent. Spent a long weekend at the top of a mountain in a stone cabin in Vermont with no electricity and no running water and a bunch of degenerate snowboarders. It was the only hut on the mountain, so in the morning you were the first person on every run. Good times. [...]

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BURNING MAN 2013: POEMS OF THE NIGHT
11 years ago
THE CALL OF THE VOID 2012 was my first trip to Burning Man. It was an incredible experience - one so thrilling, yet also so very overwhelming, both mentally and physically. When it was all over, I couldn't decide if one trip was all I could ever do, or if I was ALL IN, for life. It seemed like one or the other. Then again, those that know me well would be quick to point out that I am romantical[...]

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BURNING MAN 2012: A LONG, STRANGE TRIP
12 years ago
A LONG, STRANGE TRIP Where to begin? Sometime last fall, I happened to come across a web posting about Burning Man. Apparently the festival had grown so large that they were capping attendance at 50,000 people this year, and they were instituting a lottery system for tickets. This piqued my interest. I think Burning Man has really had been gnawing at the back of my brain for about 20 year[...]

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SATYRICON: UMBRIA
13 years ago
I recently had the good fortune of 1) Helping plan and execute a bachelor party in Bogota for my old friend Daniel. 2) Attending the subsequent wedding in Italy 10 days later. BACKSTORY My boys and I have established a rich tradition of one-upping the last bachelor party as each man ties the knot. The first was very low rent (sorry Andreas), consisting of an old run-down party bus with a tra[...]

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YOU TOO CAN BUILD YOUR OWN NAVAJO TIPI
13 years ago
Last year I spent a weekend in the Catskill mountains helping a group of people prepare for a Native American tipi ceremony. Anne has been down with the Native American Church for several years now and I've slowly been learning more and more about it. The NAC was founded in Oklahoma in the 1880s as a way of preserving Native American traditions that were on the brink of extinction due to many f[...]