Traveling

I’m sitting on the floor, by the boarding gate, waiting. I happen to have finished the book I brought with me for this trip to Frankfurt (On The Road) so I decide to start reading it again. It strikes me just as I am reading one of the many life-changing lines Jack Kerouac wrote… I [...]

Brief(ish) unsuccessful travel story in Morocco.

Well, there we were, a family of four, the summer of the year 2000, in which my parents decided it was time for us to go outside the Peninsula. So, yes, we were all standing beside our car, surrounded by dozens of other cars because that’s the thing with parking lots, there’s lots of cars, and [...]

The Evil Ticket collector: another unsuccessful travel story

This was originally written as an essay for my Writing class in my English as a foreign language school in Toronto, so that’s why I might have exaggerated my friend’s reactions a little. The rest is really true and reflects reality with no fiction or metaphors.
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It was a bright sunny summer morning. A friend of [...]

More unsuccessful travel stories

I’m thinking I should create a category called “Unsuccessful travel stories”, since they seem to be happening pretty often. It’d be like a series -like Andrew Bravener’s Unfortunate Childhood story time.
Anyways, here’s an extract about my journey (Odyssey) back home yesterday, which I originally posted on TrivBlog. I guess I’m posting it here too because [...]

Unsuccessful travel stories

Boy, have I been fooled! 45 dollars (Ca) for a trip to Niagara Falls. That’s to say, from Toronto to Niagara Falls. 45 Dollars, can you believe that? It’s only 6 dollars taking the bus. But we paid 45 dollars for this trip they advertised at the school. Wait. They didn’t really advertise it, there [...]