The picture is of Dauphin Island, Alabama, and yes, I stayed there. The Gulf Coast is as beautiful of a coast as I have seen. As of today though, I will be cylcing somewhere between Cleveland, TX and College Station, TX. Along the way, I will be going through Cut and Shoot, Texas. For my non Texan friends, this means that I am just about done. IF I can make it to College Station today, then I will be back in Austin on Saturday. This trip has been ex...

The picture is of Dauphin Island, Alabama, and yes, I stayed there. The Gulf Coast is as beautiful of a coast as I have seen. As of today though, I will be cylcing somewhere between Cleveland, TX and College Station, TX. Along the way, I will be going through Cut and Shoot, Texas. For my non Texan friends, this means that I am just about done. IF I can make it to College Station today, then I will be back in Austin on Saturday. This trip has been expens...

Considering that I have had no job and zero responsibilities I am not expecting any "pity parties" from anyone, but the last 2-3 months have not exactly been a "barrell of laughs" for me (hence the lack of blog entries). So with the inspiration of a couple of 70 plus year old Canadians, I have decided to shake things up a bit. As of this Friday afternoon, I will be back in the good old USA, well Miami. The plan of the day is to purchase a bi...

Most of you know that I am already "Out of Africa" and now in Scotland. For my own benefit (lousy memory), I wanted to jot down the following thoughts. The 500+ more photos that I have will have to come later. The street people of India remain the most poverty stricken people that I have ever seen in my life. The people of Africa (that I saw personally) sadly are the second most poverty stricken that I have seen in my travels. With that said, t...

Originally written on July 9th.... I am a lucky, lucky boy.This last-minute trip to Africa has been a wonderful change of pace to the stressful, jam-packed days that I have had for the last twelve months.To the random strangers reading this blog this is 100% pure sarcasm as today is my one-year anniversary of being an unemployed traveling bum. As you can see from the now over 5,000+ photos I have seen and done some pretty cool stuff.In the last few weeks alo...