A Travel Blogger’s Review of The White Lotus Season 3
Spiritualized western women obsessing about ‘Mercury in retrograde’; gringos rocking insane floral shirts; friendly locals suddenly requesting large sums of money on a suspicious sob story. Oh, and that guy who’s now sober because he penetrated too deep into the red-lit chasm of the abyss. These are the characters you inevitably meet traveling Southeast Asia.…
R.I.P. Ronnie, Legendary Biker and Hostel Owner
R.I.P. to our brother Ronnie Mukherjee who passed on last year. Ronnie was a legendary motorcycle road captain, owner of the ‘Basecamp Nirvana’ hostel in Manali, India and tour-guide of the mountainous Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir regions. Ronnie was also owner and best friend to Loki, the Himalayan Mountain Dog he adopted as…
The Land Before Time: Iguazu Falls
Remember the 1980’s animated adventure ‘The Land Before Time’ — featuring cute dinosaurs frolicking around a pre-historic paradise? That’s what Iguazu Falls is like. Valecxpedition arrived to tour of this 7th Wonder of the Natural World and found ourselves transported more than 100 million years into the past, when lizards roamed free. DAY 1 –…
Lost Journal: Amazon ‘Igapó’ Backwater Camping
In September of 2021 I hired two guides to take me through the ‘Igapó’ backwaters of the Amazon on a canoe camping trip, roughly 100 km south of Manaus in Brazil. I wrote a journal — which I thought was lost forever — but recently turned up in my dad’s basement. Here’s some excepts from…
India Street Market Stories
It’s been a long time since I published a travel blog. Does anyone still do travel blogs? It seems like most of the internet is just people unboxing products from Amazon and promoting them via their ‘Influencer Pages’ — thus perpetuating our mindless culture of content and consumerism. Okay let’s do a blog about shopping:…
An Excerpt from Jack Kerouac’s ‘The Dharma Bums’
For the past several years I’ve used this site to bring you some High-Octane Travel Blogging Adventures Extraordinaire. However, due to a downshift in life-pace and in the interest of preserving my internal organs, I don’t have many of those to report out today. So I’m experimenting with a new blog format. Let’s start with…
Flag Review: ‘Bandeira do Brasil’
I haven’t written a proper blog for a while mostly because I’ve been busy with work and such, but truly because I couldn’t think of anything original to write … until now. Drumroll…welcome readers to the ‘Inaugural Renegade Flag Review!’ Seriously, who reviews a flag? I dunno…”Who throws a shoe?” Random Tasks both, so here…
Published Travel Writings & Presentations
Follows are writings from my travels through India and South America from 2020 through 2022, published in various newspapers and digital outlets. Additionally, one magazine feature on my high-altitude expedition through the Himalayas with LA Riders Motorcycle Club, and a presentation to seniors at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design … enjoy!
Red City High Rise
Gaze upon these glowing high-rises at nightand behold the red towers of the Matrix Where the machines harvest lifebloodfrom unknowing humansblissfully plugged into “reality” servicesand digital Metaverses Witness the energy wavescobwebbing up-and-downas humans enjointhe Machine’s cortex The only reprieve is the Big Top Circuswhere denizens of the Matrixpay to see freaks flipping up-and-down Step right…
Book Review: Lost in the Valley of Death
“There is a world beyond that of our everyday physical, mental and emotional experiences. Beyond the five senses, and different from the realm of imagination. It is the world of the unseen and eternal, of spirit and vision. It is a dimension of life that very few people of today seek, or perhaps care to…
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