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Environmental Mismanagement of Maracas Falls, Trinidad and Tobago
Slipping, sliding, removing shoes, jumping from stone to greasy, ragged stone on a short eye-jittering hike. The quiet, stunning, sweating green surrounds hardly noticed for the heads bowed, eyes glued...
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How to spend the night on your host’s stoop
Ensure that it is 8 degrees celsius outside and that you do have weather appropriate clothes and are instead wearing simply a sweater over a dress. Ensure you have bought a heavy bag of perishable...
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Explaining 9 months of travel to someone who can’t budget for 2 weeks of it
“You got money, don’t act like you don’t. I KNOW you got money” Loudly announced, insisted aggressively. Confusion felt; quietly explaining the concept of couchsurfing, of sleeping on the floors of...
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Forgetting your passport & the usefulness of couchsurfers
10 missed calls. SMS: Emergency! Respond! SMS: I forgot my passport! Phone rings. “It’s in the wooden box on my shelf. Do you see it? Can you get on the F train right now and meet me at World Trade...
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Travel fatigue VS Couchsurfing fatigue
Tiring of the constant checking of the phone and email for the next hosts acceptance. Tiring of sitting in coffee shops waiting for hosts to return home. Tiring of feeling uncomfortable in every space...
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What it means when a Brooklyn hipster says they’re broke
“$18,000 a year is the poverty line. Last year I made $16,000. I’m living below the poverty line.” Words spoken from behind the shining white Apple branded laptop. Over a coffee table stacked high with...
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A woman’s place: Interpreting street harassment in Brooklyn, New York
“Oh you beautiful honey. You SO beautiful.” A bouncing smiling face speaks. A moment later.. “Say THANK YOU. Be nice.” I turn and frown in the no-longer smiling face. Immediate hollered response for...
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“Oh, you’re from Australia…What are you doing in New York??”
When my housemate – in New York – decided to pretend he was my drunken abusive boyfriend, to scare away unwanted AirBnb guests and thus get his bedroom back, I said sure, do what you want, it’s your...
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The downside of minimalist footwear
Maraval, Trinidad Fundamentally….THEY STINK… from the sweat of constant wear. They never dry from the rain, the riverbed walks, the slips in muddy lake shores. They collect half the grassy debris of...
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To all the New Yorkers who squeal and stamp their feet at rats
Kensington, New York YOU are a filthy animal. YOU are a plague upon this earth. YOU are the profilerant of death and disease. YOU are the one infesting this city with your selfish compulsion to EAT and...
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