Tag: USA
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The American Dream – Its Death and Its Importance
I don’t think it can be overstated how much damage the death of the American dream has done to the American psyche. Maybe all you need to do is spend…
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The Children’s Crusade – A Broadway Show by ChatGPT
Title: The Children’s Crusade by ChatGPT with prompts by CD Damitio Act 1: Lost Childhood Scene 1: (Scene opens in Oakwood, a small town in a first-world country. We see…
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A Visit to Hollywood
I’m always torn about saying where I grew up – my emotionally struggling parents started out with good intentions of having their kids grow up in a Southern California mountain…
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An Offbeat Dude in an Offbeat Town – Vagobond in Austin, Texas
Austin is the fastest growing city in the United States – and it has been such since 2010. This rapid growth creates a dynamic environment that provides opportunities and more…
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Beauty Strips – and the Failure of America
I grew up in logging country. Oregon, Washington, Northern California. In logging country they had something that people in the rest of the world may not be familiar with. It…
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Travel is Awful – Don’t travel – Travel Sucks
I’m not sure if it is the intersection of Covid-19, technology, and travel or if I’m just older and grumpier but the only conclusion I can reach is that travel…
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Extraordinary Vagobond – Tarzan of Manisa
I never expected to find out that Tarzan came from Turkey!
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Vagabond Explorer – Sir Richard Francis Burton
Explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton was quite possibly the greatest vagabond in history. In his lifetime he lived diverse cultures, broke boundaries, and did most of it without much in…
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Ponce de Leon – Deadly Damn Vagabond
It might be pushing it to call Ponce de Leon a vagabond since he was a career soldier, but in terms of dreams and adventure, certainly he fits the bill…
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Vagabond Granny – Grandma Gatewood
Every once in a while you come across someone that inspires the hell out of you. Emma “Grandma” Gatewood is one of those people.
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Vagabond Anarchist – Emma Goldman
Her life was filled with constant movement from city to city and town to town.
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Extraordinary Vagabond – Ed Buryn – Vagabond King
Travel is not just moving over the earth from one place to another in some kind of conveyance. It’s not about where you’re going or how you’re getting there. It’s…
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Jim Bridger – Vagabond Saddle Tramp
This is an excerpt from my book “Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost is the Point” . It’s available as an ebook for kindle or ebook readers. Over the next several months we…
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Obasuteyama – Film Review
by CD Damitio It’s never easy to become old. Whether one is looking for a job at Walmart to supplement social security in the USA or attempting to define one’s…
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Jack London – Prince of the Tramps, Patron of Vagabonds
Jack London’s life reads like an adventure novel. From being a vagrant to a pirate to working in the gold fields to learning to surf from Duke Kahanamoku, he lived…
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Vagobond Travel Museum – A Random Hitch-trip on Interstate 5
A true account of a hitch trip I took from Portland, Oregon to Seattle, Washington back in the year 2000.
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Vagobond Travel Museum – Foodie Paradise Around the World Part II – The Americas
Some exceptional dishes found in the Americas
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Vagobond Travel Museum – The USA Trip
I ended up connecting with old friends, losing my father, strengthening the relationships with my brother and my uncle, hustling enough to get things going in Morocco, and accomplishing all…
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Vagobond Travel Museum: The Amtrak Amtrek Across the USA
Back in 2008, I left Hawaii and set out on an adventure that took me across the USA by Amtrak train, I called it the Amtrek. This week, for the…
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Syncopated Family Travel – The Arizona Painted Desert and Leaving Your Mark
The vastness of the Arizona Painted Desert stretches out all around me, home to the nameless dead.
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Syncopated Family Travel – The Grand Canyon, The Rio Grande, and Grand Theft Auto
Due to its proximity to the Grand Canyon, Williams is a thriving cluster of motels and tourist dives.
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Syncopated Family Travel: Yes, I’m a Mouseketeer at Disneyland!
To quote the Flight of the Conchords, “I’m not crying, it’s just raining on my face.” This is heaven.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Leaving Las Vegans
As we head west we make a brief side visit to the City of Sin to take my daughter to Veggee Delight. I’m a little worried as the GPS leads…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Idaho Sucks
“I fucked up that sonofabitch real good,” drawls one of the dusty men, sporting a mighty handlebar mustache.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Yellowstone, Chinese Tourists, and God Damned Bison
I haven’t felt this inadequate since freshman year gym class. Yellowstone is a nature photographer’s wet dream.
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