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How To Protest Around The World

February 13, 2013 by The Runaway Guide 6 Comments

how to protest in egypt

I look up. A volley of cans are hurling in a high arc through the smoke filled air. I immediately calculate their trajectories and realize they’re heading right for me. With zero time, I leap to safety. The first one lands just a few feet from where I was standing. White gas suffocates the air. […]

Filed Under: Adventures Tagged: adventure, cairo, egypt

The Great South American Adventure

February 3, 2013 by The Runaway Guide 25 Comments

In just three days The Great South American Adventure shall commence! I will depart New York for the nation state of El Salvador! I know nothing about El Salvador. I don’t know where I’m going to stay. I don’t know what I am going to do. All I know is I am going to be […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, Leif, south america

How Turkish Hospitality Saved My Life

November 11, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 10 Comments

I had always head references to Turkish hospitality in books and in movies. But I had always just thought it was a tourism slogan that caught on. However it wasn’t until I visited Turkey as a 16 year old runaway did I realize the truth of this expression. While it’s true that most people just […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, blog, turkey

Indiana Jones and The Easter of Lalibela

August 14, 2012 by The Runaway Guide Leave a Comment

the easter ceremony at the ancient stone carved churches in Lalibela ethiopia

The year, 2012, the date, a night before Easter, the place, the 13 ancient churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia. After suffering through a night of used condoms and thumb sized cockroaches in the truck stop whore town of Waldeya Ethiopia, young Indiana Jones decided he was in need of some adventure. He threw his custom made […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, ethiopia

The Perils of Hitchhiking Ethiopia

August 9, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 8 Comments

ethiopian farmer with a gun

The road was the most desolate road I had ever attempted to hitchhike. Aside from a few huts, which sparsely dotted the hillsides, there was nothing but untamed fields, dried out riverbeds and the dirt road ahead. I was in the Wild West of East Africa, better known as the Ethiopian Highlands. After two hours […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, ethiopia, hitchhiking

Sneaking Into Angkor Wat

June 9, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 13 Comments

At breakfast we came across a Dutch fellow who recounted some recent anecdotes of how he tripped acid while being interrogated by Nepalese police and how he spent 2500 euro after a drunken night at a Katmandu Casino. Later, I asked him advice about Angkor Wat and he very adamantly suggested we sneak in to […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, cambodia, south east asia

Premonition Turned Reality: The Bus Crash

May 25, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 6 Comments

We have all had those moments when we seem to know what will come. Those moments when that little voice or feeling warns you not to drink the water because it has already seen the diarrhea that will result. The problem with such premonitions is that we hardly trust them enough. And when a strong […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, intense, khartoum, sudan

Looking Down the Barrel of Anti-Semitism in Egypt

March 29, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 20 Comments

A few weeks ago when I was back in Cairo, I had an intense encounter that nearly ended my life. More so than being a terrifying experience, it forced me to make a difficult decision. That being, whether to stay true to my beliefs and risk death in the face of a home made gun […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, cairo, egypt

A Bike Ride Through Egypt

March 26, 2012 by The Runaway Guide 4 Comments

After spending a month in Dahab hostel in downtown Cairo, I was beginning to get bored. I had already hurled stones at the police and experienced the full power of tear gas but I needed something more. I needed a challenge. All of a sudden, I recalled a German girl who I met on the […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, egypt, Leif

The Revolution Continues: Cairo November 20, 2011

November 21, 2011 by The Runaway Guide 9 Comments

“Thump, thump”… The sound of tear gas canisters being fired. “O shit, I’ve gotten too close!” I look up. A single can is hurling in a high arc through the smoke filled air. I quickly calculate it’s trajectory and realize it is heading right for me. With no time to think, I leap to safety. […]

Filed Under: Runaway's Blog Tagged: adventure, blog, cairo

The Adventure Begins

September 30, 2011 by The Runaway Guide 38 Comments

Tonight, is the night, of nights (name that quote). The night before the night to be more exact, but in my gut, it feels like it’s already here. As I sit on my porch, with the cool fall air caressing my skin, I am overcome with a familiar feeling but one that I have not […]

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When I was 16 I ran away from home and traveled the world with nothing but the clothes on my back. Over 10 years later and I'm still "on the run," surviving in style, thriving off adventure, searching for that elusive road to enlightenment, and cultivating the life of travel that I want to live. More...






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