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- // Blog Post from Mountain Cabin // Dahlonega // Georgia
- Rope Swings and River Floats Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. We even rigged up an inner tube to carry a cooler of beer and dragged an extra inflatable boat to pick up trash (as well as hold our own). It … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Cathedral-Basilica de la Asunción // León // Nicaragua
- Our Days Are Becoming Nights Everywhere I go I think, I should live here… I should know what it’s like to work in a cigar factory in Leon, fish in the Mekong, living in a floating house on Tonle Sap, sell hot dogs at Fenway Park, trade stocks in New York, wander the Thar Desert by camel, navigate the Danube, see the way Denali looks … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Parque Central // León // Nicaragua
- Tiny Cities Made of Ash The bells are a constant cacophony, not the rhythmic ringing out of the hours or tolling from mass that the human mind seems to find pleasant; no, this is constant banging, the sort of atonal banging that only appeals to the young and dumb. The firecrackers bursting back over behind the cathedral add an off rhythm that only makes the … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Casa Iguana Guesthouse // Corn Islands // Nicaragua
- You Can’t Go Home Again The wind became constant on the second day, changing from the occasional gust that would precede an hour or two of torrential rains, to a steady 20-25 knot blow as if Zephuros himself were paying a visit to the island. Once the wind became constant, silence retreated back to wherever silence goes in a world where squalls rule. At first … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Casa Iguana Guesthouse // Corn Islands // Nicaragua
- Returning Again — Back on Little Corn Island This is a first — going back to somewhere I’ve already been. Generally speaking, the world seems so huge and so full of amazing destinations that repeating one never struck me as a judicious use of my short allotment of time. However, given a rather small window of time for our honeymoon, Corrinne and I decided that the vaguely familiar … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
- In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well Tim Patterson, editor of MatadorTrips.com, recently published an article entitled How To Travel The World For Free (Seriously). There are some good tips in the article, even for the seasoned travel vet. But what’s far more fascinating is the response from commenters many of whom tore into Patterson, calling him everything from a “rich, privileged, arrogant hipster” to a “dirty … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Carlito's Sunrise Paradise Guesthouse // Corn Islands // Nicaragua
- Little Island in the Sun From San Juan Del Sur we caught a cab back to Rivas (much faster driver this time), then a bus to Managua, switched to another bus out to the airport, then hopped a plane to Bluefields and then on to Big Corn Island where we jumped in a boat to Little Corn Island. Pretty much every form of transportation in … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from San Juan Del Sur // San Juan Del Sur // Nicaragua
- Return to the Sea Rivas was hot, dusty and filled with touts clamoring to shove you a cab bound for just about anywhere but Rivas itself. Not being the sort of tourists that like to disappoint a determined tout, we ended up in one of those cabs, along with a couple of Nicaraguans, bound for the Pacific coast town of San Juan Del Sur. … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Parque Colon // Granada // Nicaragua
- Ring The Bells We landed in Managua about eight in the evening, walked outside the airport and smoked a cigarette (I know, terrible, I started smoking again), surveying the taxi drivers all clamoring for jacked up fares from the new arrivals. Eventually we gave up and paid our own jacked up fare to get to a decent guesthouse picked randomly out of the … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
- New Year’s Day I have at various times been accused of harboring a certain amount of cynicism (or realism, depending on the point of view of the person leveling such accusations), something I continue to deny. However, there are a few notable moments of cynical behavior in my past and perhaps the most obvious has always been my attitude toward New Year’s Day. … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from foothills condo // Tucson // Arizona
- Merry Christmas Merry Christmas my internet friends and a happy holiday season to those that celebrate other holidays. I’m spending my Christmas in a place where people string lights around Saguaro cacti, which somehow doesn’t put me in much of a Christmas mood, but that’s the way it goes. I was going to write a little bit about salad dressing, Paul Newman, … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Cloverhurst // Athens // Georgia
- Fall The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it’s Fall [1], we’re also in the middle of a prolonged drought — this year being one of the worst — but this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you’re a leaf and you’ve got to go, do … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from White's Cove // Catalina Island // California
- On The Other Ocean Consider for a moment if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left. Imagine how this would complicate seemingly ordinary activities — like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt — if you’re lucky, … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Heather's House // Brooklyn // New York
- Being There Myrtle Beach does not exist. Myrtle Beach is in fact a copy of a place that does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses complete with sewage treatment blue waterfalls and variety of … continue reading »
- // Blog Post from Corrinne's Apartment // Charleston // South Carolina
- Sailing Through It was the middle of the afternoon, we having settled in to watch a bit of the Blues Brothers — afternoon films being my favorite form of procrastination — when, just after Belushi remarks that the modern American mall “has everything”, the screen blacked out to the sound of bleating sirens and a message began to scroll across the screen … continue reading »
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Luxagraf is an experiment in travel writing — highly subjective, non-linear and a bit more random than most travel writing, but hopefully you'll like that. If not, there are plenty of glossy magazines out there to satisfy you.
I didn't start out to be a travel writer, I was writing and happened to do some traveling. The results are what you see here. Along the way I've discovered that travel writing is one of the only honest forms of non-fiction. That's what luxagraf is about — the unvarnished, sometimes ugly, truth of travel, told by someone just like you.
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