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Rivka Gets A Mohawk — Taking Care Of Kids In Prague, Day 1
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I gave my two-year-old daughter a mohawk. That was my first act of daddy daycare. “Daddy daycare.” That’s what my kids are calling this month. I’m taking care of my two girls —...
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Finding Prague Waterpark And Baby Cafe — Kids In Prague Day 2
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Day two of daddy day care found us exploring our neighborhood. We’re staying in kind of a residential part of Prague 6. There is a Vietnamese restaurant, a local restaurant...
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Prague Waterpark
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Yesterday we went into town for supplies to go to the waterpark: namely, swim diapers. I’m relatively confident dadding but I have no idea what I would do if my 2-year-old...
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Travel To Vienna With Kids
VIENNA, Austria- I have to watch my kids for the month while my wife goes to school in Prague but that doesn’t necessarily mean that I can’t travel, does it? I never took a trip with my two daughters...
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At The Prague Military Hospital
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I’m at the military hospital. I was starting to get the impression that the rib that I hurt when I fell off the trampoline in Vienna while playing with my daughters may have...
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A Visit In Prague From A Friend Of The Way
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Colonel Kurtz of Khorgos fame came to visit me in Prague. He said that he was doing business in Berlin, four hours by train away, but I like to think he came all the way from...
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Talking Travel With Andy Graham Of HoboTraveler.com
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- More on this soon, but my old friend Andy Graham of HoboTraveler.com has been with me in Prague for the past ten days or so. We set up a camera and recorded ourselves talking...
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Where Would I Be Without Andy Graham?
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I don’t know where I would be without this guy. I may have ended up just some backpacker traveling endlessly for no reason at all, working odd jobs, doing what I had been doing...
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With The HoboTraveler In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Andy is here, as previous blog posts have alluded to. Andy was my first mentor, I guess you could say, the guy that plucked me out of the ether and believed in me — made me...
View Article‘Writing Is Easier When You’re Angry’
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I had to admit that I miss Andy’s writing. Every day for over a decade he would blog. Every morning he gave you something to read … Andy just laughed as we sat at the sidewalk...
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Andy Leaves Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Andy departed from Prague this morning and I should be following suit tomorrow. I’m going to miss that guy. Meeting other travelers like him remind me of the old poems by Li...
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Leaving Prague, Going To Montana
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Anyway, we’re leaving Prague today. I am not joining the New Silk Road Project expedition; I’m not riding in a Jeep with a group of young British explorers across the Caspian...
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Halloween In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- “Americans have a lot of dumb traditions but this one is actually cool,” spoke a teenage girl standing in the street wearing a princess costume. How she arrived at her...
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St Martin’s Day In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- “I feel so bad for you. You used to be a travel blogger and you used too enjoy going out and seeing cultural things.” My wife said that to me yesterday. I think she was just...
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Renewing My Passport – Entering My Third Phase Of Travel
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- My big fat, beat up, bent up, grotty, grime-embedded passport now has four holes punched into is cover. These are like gunshot wounds; the thing is dead. I get a little proud...
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Letany – Wandering Around The Liminal Zone Of Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- The criteria for adventure, according to Petra: 1) You’re going somewhere you’ve never been before. 2) You don’t know what’s going to happen. 3) And daddy pees on a tree. Yeah,...
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The Prague Plan
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I’ve been back in Prague for the past three weeks. I still have a few things from my recent jaunts around the USA and Canada to publish, but will probably just shoot them...
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Velvet Revolution Anniversary In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was out at the Kolbenova flea market in the east of Prague doing some filming and talking to some of the people there, hearing some stories. I eventually stumbled upon a film...
View ArticleBlackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k Test
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I wanted tough lighting conditions. I wanted darkness. I wanted different temperature and types of light bulbs blasting into the same ether. I wanted conditions where most...
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A Sunday Of Filming In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- It was probably my ideal way to spend a Sunday if I can’t be in Orchard Park. I started off a film project in Prague the day before, doing a preliminary interview and getting...
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What Thanksgiving Dinner Was Like In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Pizza eggs. That was my Thanksgiving dinner. Pizza eggs. What are pizza eggs? Pizza eggs were first developed by Erik the Pilot one morning in the early 2000s when we woke up...
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My Biggest Question About Europe Remains Unanswered
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- “What size would you like?” the lady behind the counter asked in reference to my coffee. I looked over my options: small, smaller, and miniscule. The miniscule’s handle was its...
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Czech Lunches
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Readers of this site sometimes bust my balls about my food selection criteria: I don’t give a crap for sampling every dainty little fancy bit of food that a country has to...
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Can You Travel Vlog With A Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K?
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Yes. Yes, you can vlog with a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K (BMPCC4K ). Even though the manufacturer put an innovative second record button on the front of the camera just...
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What The Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4K Taught Me About Pre-Orders
I never pre-ordered anything before. I simply wasn’t aware that when popular electronic devices first come out it can be a really long time before there is enough available for regular retail sales...
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The View From The Other Side Of Prague – Filming Project In Prague In Full Swing
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I spent the past two days doing what I like most: going around a city filming people. The story is about social entrepreneurship and this startup in Prague called Pragulic who...
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Traveling Alone In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was running out of stories for work — writing articles for Forbes and The Guardian and Bloomberg and an array of relatively high-paying corporate publications. The lifestyle...
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Flying On Pegasus Air: Prague To Beirut
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- It’s leaving day. The second of four sessions that we’re doing in Prague between 2018-2019 is over. The next one comes at the end of February. The one after that at the end of...
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Visiting Prague In March
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Prague at the end of winter? Not bad. We arrived in the middle of February expecting it to be freezing cold — we just left Maine in the middle of an ice storm — but it wasn’t....
View ArticleEurope Is A Lonely Place
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- My friend Andy Graham’s take on Europe is simple: it’s hard to make friends there. We met up in Prague and I listened to him talk about how people are not really into meeting...
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Amazing Family Compartment On RegioJet Trains
VIENNA, Austria- We missed our train back to Prague. That’s the most face-preserving way I can put it. In actuality I put myself and my two girls on the wrong train and we rode out of Vienna Central...
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Why Museums Are No Longer The Refuge Of The Traveler
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Museums were once the great refuge of the traveler. If it the weather was raining, too cold, too hot, or if you just had nothing better to do, you could duck inside a museum...
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AirBnB Station In Prague Airport
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- It was with no small amount of relief that I saw that the SIM card stand in terminal 1 was still open. It was 11:30 pm, and we just stepped back into the Czech Republic — our...
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Living In Luxury In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- We changed things up a little for this stint in Prague. Rather than staying on the periphery of the city near my wife’s school, we’re in Prague 2, in the heart of it all. The...
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The Beet Burger Is the Icon Of The 21st Century City
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- The job of the traveler is to look at what everybody else is doing in a certain place at a certain time, jump in, try it, and evaluate and share the experience. What is...
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Summertime In Prague
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I heard the sound of strangers laughing all day — and sometimes all night — long. They are sitting out on the patios of cafes, they are bellowing from the doorways of bars,...
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How Zoos Are Telling Us Where The World Is Going
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- My wife mentioned that we went to the Prague zoo for the first time in 2010. I freaked out. I had no recollection of it. I tried piecing together my travel paths — which I...
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Can’t Beat The Summertime Prague Life
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Every once in a while in our traveler daydreams we imagine a day where we just drift through a warm, sunny day from cafe to cafe, bar to bar. Not really doing anything —...
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I was Interviewed For A BBC Documentary About Lanzhou New Area
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was planning on going to London to do a studio interview for a BBC documentary … but my planning lagged … I didn’t really want to give up sunny days in summertime Prague for...
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Chicken Wings In Prague Equal Yuck
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- So all cultures have foods that they are proud of — foods that they claim as their own, foods that define them. And we, collectively, tend to get rather bent out of shape when...
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What A Computer Is Really For
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was hanging out with the sound guy after doing the BBC interview a couple of days ago when I received an emergency text from my wife: “Call me. Hard drive dead.” I said...
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Good Ideas ATW: Vomit Sinks In Bars
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Maybe I’ve seen this before but I’m not sure — if I had I may not have been in the best state for remembering: Puke sinks. A special station in the bathroom of bars and other...
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Prague Cafe No Longer Takes My Order
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Finally, it happened today. The Zanzibar Cafe stopped taking my order. They instead just bring me my Americano with milk and glass of tap water: Every morning I come to this...
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Father’s Day In Prague #2
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Some father’s days I don’t feel as deserving as others. When they first started coming around for me I somehow didn’t feel worthy — like it was a day for other people … better...
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Is She A White Supremacist Or Just Doesn’t Know English?
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- I was at a public pool in Prague the other day and I saw this tattoo: At first I was like, wow, that’s a poorly done tattoo. Then I was like, it’s in English. “Children?” Oh,...
View ArticleBut Will Travelers Still Have Stories To Tell?
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- My mother-in-law has an uncanny memory for things that happened in her childhood. My girls ask her for a story from when she was a kid and she performs as requested. Her stories...
View ArticleAn Old Guy Tried To Fight Me On A Bus To The Prague Zoo
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- some months back I asked a young Pakistani guy in Brooklyn what surprised him most about the United States. He didn’t hesitate: “The big yellow school buses. They are just like...
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Traveling Montessori Teacher Gets AMI Certified
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- She did it. She passed. My wife is now a real Montessori teacher. Well, she was a “Montessori teacher” for years, taking a string of decently paying lead teacher jobs in China...
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What’s The Worst Thing About Prague?
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- There are some cities in the world where the streets seem to be paved with gold. The streets of Prague, on the other hand, are paved with dog shit. Literally. Prague is an...
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The Journey To Our 10 Year Wedding Anniversary
PRAGUE, Czech Republic- Ten years. That’s how long I’ve been married for. A decade ago I stood up there under the chuppah, with a woman who was wearing a fake mustache. I had on a wig. We both...
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