I ran out of money in Medellín in 2017. Not “being careful with my spending” out of money — actually […]

I landed in Amman with 340 dollars in my pocket and a return ticket I’d bought eight months earlier. Everyone

I’ve eaten street food in 67 countries. I’ve gotten properly sick exactly four times. Two of those were my own

I booked a Friday night flight to Marrakech during a Tuesday morning standup. Camera off, mute on, half-listening to someone

Sixty-seven countries. That’s how many stamps are in my passport, and it only happened because I stopped waiting for the

The first time I paid “tourist price” for something, I didn’t even know it had happened. Handed over the cash,

I slept in a two-man tent on a cliff above the Adriatic for eleven nights straight last summer. Total accommodation

The flight from Bangkok to Hanoi left in nine hours. I sat in a hostel common room in Chiang Mai,

Africa has a reputation problem. Ask most backpackers why they skip it and you’ll hear the same tired lines: too

I once watched a guy at Bangkok’s Don Mueang airport pay $85 in excess baggage fees for a suitcase he’d