Author: CD Damitio
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What if the world never fully recovers from COVID-19?
I’m not trying to scare anyone here – but it’s something that we should think about. What if the world we knew a month ago never comes back? The world…
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Moussem Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch – Sacred, Mystical, Muslim, Madness
Hardly advertised, the pilgrimage of Sidi Ali Ben Hamdouch is still known by most Moroccans. This is an opportunity to be transported deep into Moroccan tradition.
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The King of Seville and The Barber of Seville
I didn’t have high hopes for Sevilla, but arriving here, it seems pretty nice. Lots of sunbathing in the park, beautiful architecture, and even a mosque they stole from the…
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Sydney, Australia – Last Part – Sydney to the Airport
The best part of living in Hawaii is that when your trip is over, it’s time to go home – to Hawaii. Honestly, I miss my family and am ready…
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Staying in Capsule Hotels in Australia – Capsules Down Under
I’ve always been fascinated by capsule hotels – but never really had the chance to stay in one until I came to Australia about ten days ago – for some…
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A Personal Timeline of COVID-19 and the End of the World
I will update this as time goes on…I My Experience with 2020, the year of COVID-19. I’m not sure if I’ve just been waiting for a disaster or if I’m…
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Day Trip from Sydney, Australia – The Blue Mountains on a Rainy Day
This was the only organized tour I did – and I made sure that it was an active tour so I wouldn’t be trapped in a bus with the cruise…
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Tasmania – Part 2 – Cradle Mountain, Tasmanian Honey, Beauty Point
My initial thought on Tasmania and Australia since I have just a short amount of time here was to walk as much as possible and stick pretty close to where…
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Launceston, Tasmania, Australia – Part 1
Jetstar, which is the airline I’ve been using to get around Australia runs these cheap Friday Fare Frenzy sales – you have to be able to match the times they…
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Sydney, Australia Part 3
I suppose my travel mantra has become ‘wake early and walk a lot.’ In some cases I’m strolling 16 miles per day – which means that I am seeing a…
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Sydney, Australia Part 2 – Sydney Eye, Glebe, and LGBTQ Mardi Gras Sydney
My flight from Melbourne was a little bit delayed but I got back just before sunset. It was nice that I had the capsule hotel waiting for me – and…
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Reactionary Trump Cancels All Travel Between USA and Europe
The Trump Administration seems intent on making people panic and creating bad situations. In a speech an hour ago, Trump just cancelled all travel between the USA and Europe for…
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Melbourne, Australia – Ned Kelly’s Armor and 15,000 Steps
I’m loving these many miles of walking early each morning. The neighborhood we live in, in Hawaii isn’t a great walking neighborhood. It’s surrounded by freeways and military bases as…
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Melbourne, Australia – First Impressions and a Tiki-Bar!
I flew from Sydney into Melbourne, Avalon – which is about an hour outside of Melbourne. I didn’t know that. In any event, I took the SkyBus for $23 AUD…
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The Shit is Really Hitting the Fan!
Wow. The stars are really lining up for massive change. Chaos at the Greek/Turkish border over the ‘catch and release’ of Syrian refugees into Europe from Turkey. Russia and Saudi…
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Arriving in Sydney, Australia – My New Favorite City
I used to tell people that my ideal city was if you could take Vancouver, British Columbia and combine it with Quebec City – then put it in Hawaii. That’s…
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Travel in the Time of Covid-19 – Vagobond in Australia – Back on the Road in 2020
It seems like the only times I really travel are when the world is in turmoil. September 11th, H1N1, Arab Spring, the Great Recession, and now – coronavirus. I don’t…
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World’s Strangest Hotels
Exploring the world’s strangest hotels is certainly a fun thing to do, given the extremes hotels have gone to, just in the name of being “strange”.
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Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Museum
Tesla himself was a U.S. citizen and died in New York City where he was working on a way to create ‘free energy’ which conspiracy theorists believe was sabotaged by…
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Jazz in Paris – Paris Jazz Bars and One Swinging Town
If you are a real jazz addict and you want to come to Paris this summer…read on….
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The Basilica of St. John at Selcuk – Revelations and the Anti Christ
I had no idea that I would be visiting the place where the idea of the Anti-Christ was born or the book of Revelation was composed, but there I was…
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A Visit with Dinosaurs in Prehistoric Gardens – A Highway 101 Roadside Attraction
Since 1955, drivers on Highway 101 along the Southern Oregon Coast have been able to walk among the dinosarus (23 if I counted correctly) at the Prehistoric Gardens between Gold…
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Up the Bosporus to the Black Sea
One of the things I had been most looking forward to in Turkey was taking a boat up the Bosporus Strait to the Black Sea. There is something about both…
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Dar Zerhoune in Moulay Idriss
Happily for us, no one else had thought to book a Valentines getaway at Dar Zerhoune and so back in 2009, we had this entire beautiful Dar to ourselves. The…
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A Manifesto of Peopolism
A Manifesto of Peopolism [pronounced {pee-ah-pol-ism}] For too long, humanity has boxed themselves into outdated and antiquated -isms that were created to describe different times, different strategies, and different human…
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