After spending 25 days in the Bulgarian wilderness with a young hippie family – abstinent, vegan and isolated from all of society – I returned…
Photo by Jens Johnsson Camping in the Atacama Desert with a group of Chilean hippies was always going to present something of a communication challenge. With…
It doesn’t seem like the beautiful chaos that is Burning Man – blooming annually in a desert metropolis entrapped by shifting sandy hills and black…
The lights have just come up and I’m high as a kite. The last DJ is putting records into boxes and the crowd is dispersing….
An unanticipated phone call in the afternoon alerts me that a Daratan ceremony is taking place in a matter of minutes at Pura Dalem Agung,…
“Welcome home!” our greeter hugged. Some say home is where the heart is. Others say it’s a mirage town that exists for only seven days…
We were half way between Bilbao and Burgos when the weather started to take a hold. The Spanish summer that, according to the Gregorian was…
Fuck the full moon parties; Songkran is by far Thailand’s most dangerous festivity. This Thai New Year celebration takes place in April all over the…
Each year, on June 23rd, Denmark plays host to Sankt Hans: a medieval “witch-burning” festival of Nordic tradition. I see your confusion: witches aren’t burned alive anymore,…
It ended in much the same way as it began: with a broken neck. If you had have asked me at 10 that morning, I…
On the first Sunday of every Oktoberfest, thousands of LGBTIQ people gather in Munich for a big gay piss up. Cocktoberfest, if you will. It’s…
Famed author Charles Bukowski once drunkenly scribbled down a truly interesting piece of writing about society, about God, and about beer. The piece read: “For…
