The Douchey Backpacker

I dedicate this post to this high quality tequila which is bringing out my inner hater. I’ve had a short burst of micro-excursions. NJ to Boston to NYC to San Diego and back to NJ within two weeks. I’ve been a bit busy to write in here but the gears have been turning. I’ve been […]

The Traveling Graduate Student

I’m not just out in the world wasting away, stringing together hangovers in strange cities. When I am done traveling and living like a hobo my career will continue without so much as a hiccup. I’m covering my tracks. I’m in graduate school. Again. Kinda. A week ago I submitted a design project for an […]

The Best and Worst of Being on the Road

When I was a young adult living and working in Boston I encountered the first of three of adulthood’s great crises; establishing a personal direction. Four years into my corporate life I was simmering in a stew of anxiety, unmotivated and directionless. They say if you place a frog in a pot and slowly bring […]

Biking in Copenhagen

The basic design of the bicycle has not changed in over a century standing testament to its perfected form. Pure mechanical efficiency. The type of stuff to stir my inner nerd. The first thing I did in Copenhagen after settling in my dingy Airbnb was renting a bike. The only bike available looked rickety and […]

Tokyo and Seoul

Is this Tokyo or is this Seoul? I took a pit stop in Tokyo en route to Seoul for a few days to visit familiar faces, eat lots of ramen, and do some good old-fashioned exploring. I can’t help but associate these two cities for their similarities and their striking differences. They are both enormous […]

Working as a Foreigner at Samsung Electronics in South Korea

In 2014, sometime after hopping around the US and East Asia for five months in post-grad school glory, I started at the Device Solutions Research division of Samsung Electronics. Samsung is the largest, most well known, and arguably the most coveted place to work on that tiny densely packed peninsula. Navigating the ins and outs […]

A Guide to Financing Open-ended World Hopping

Yes that is my wallet. Yes it is a rubber band. Its tightly wrapped around various cards, metro passes, and at least three different types of currency. Money matters and traveling the world is by no means a cheap endeavor. Yet with careful planning it is very realistic. In terms of financing a trip around the […]