When I say that… Travelers are mostly vapid, gutless and intoxicated. It’s my cognitive dissonance remarking on the differences between the noble philosophies travelers claim and what I’ve actually observed. Maybe I’m a little bitter because I was sold this romantic image of travelers as introspective, conscious, philosophical, adventurers and cultural novelty junkies when in actuality they(…)
Read along as we trek through the second installment of Matt and Max’s adventure of finding a place to sleep in Humahuaca. When we last left them, they had just been turned away from a second hostel. …… “She said there is one other hostel we could try down the road,” Max said. “She said(…)
I stumbled into a tourism office and rang the bell on the front desk. A clock on the wall read 5 p.m. A look out the window, however, seemed to say otherwise, as the sun already seemed to be drifting off behind the mountains in the little town of Purmamarca. “Hola que tal?” I spun(…)
When you are living alone in your studio apartment or in a shared apartment with housemates, household behavior can be laid-back, maybe a little lazy, or even messy. However, when sharing a hostel with dozens of other travelers, the rules change. Yet, not everyone has an understanding or respect for hostel etiquette. Good manners sometimes(…)
