Okay, awkward turtle reminded me of my favorite one.

It was 2007, I was newly 21, and it was my first time out of the country. A friend and I went to Honduras for a World Vision volunteer thing and stayed with this super wonderful but super Christian family. No alcohol for five weeks, they never let us out of their…

I come from a tiny town. A village, really, in the mountains. I mean, there were 500 people in my town. So, college was eye-opening enough; but after college I decided to open my mind even more and backpack around Europe with a friend for a couple of months. No agendas. Just a free, untethered, mountain goat.

Apologies in advance for the length, but I went on a month-long trip with the Worst Woman In The World, and it takes some time to relate. The trip in question an around-the-world backpacking extravaganza with some grad school friends to celebrate our graduation before settling down to real life. Three of the women…

My (now) husband and were traveling to Malaysia to visit his family. Thus, we did not eat in typical tourist places. The first night there we went to this local seafood restaurant and being good tourists, ate whatever was put in front of us. Which turned out to be bad snails. We spent the rest of our week holed up…

This isn't insane, but still one of my fondest travel memories.

I was visiting Rome and taking a bus with some friends when we started talking to a nun who couldn't have been older than 25. She was from Seattle, and had just gotten to Rome a few months before, so she was still acclimating, but knew her shit. We get to a stop, and a man snatches her backpack and tries to run off of…

This is the spooky story of when my friend and I got stranded on a road trip in a snow storm. We had been in traveling for spring break, and we were trying to make it back to our home city in time for classes to start in two days. The forecast showed snow, but we decided to strike out anyway because we're both from…

By the time I was 6, I had two little sisters. We went on our first family vacation that year, and (now that I know what kind of hell it is to share a hotel room with children) my parents weren't exactly relaxing. By the end of the trip, their plan was to load up the car while we were all still asleep (when you're…

Awesome news, the main reason I don't like digital films is that there's such a restriction on the devices you can use for it. DRM just feels like a massive "screw you" to anybody who doesn't pirate out of principle.

I was lucky enough to spend a day at New Jersey Motorsports park with just me, Vaughn and his fleet of Mustangs. I received an eight hour drift lesson by the master. Here's a few things you need to know about Vaughn Gittin Jr.

This would be me.

HOW IS THIS NOT COMING TO THE US??!?! GAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!

/SmashesLaptop
/FlipsDesk

I learned that from the Duggars. Hey, maybe he wants his own reality show! Working title: I Fought the Law and My Balls Won.

Like a houseguest. Marvelous at first and full of possibilities, but if left unsupervised for too long, they can be a real pain.