The Weekend Rambler

Always Authentic. Always on its own path.

Tag: Budget Travel

  • Albania: The Next Big Thing?

    Last April, I had the amazing opportunity to travel with Black Hummus Diaries through Northern Macedonia, Albania, and Montenegro. It was my first time in the Balkans, and it certainly will not be the last. When I think about the highlights from the whirlwind of a ten-day trip, Albania would certainly be high up on my…

  • What to do in Northern Macedonia

    Here’s a bit about a trip I took last April with Black Hummus Diaries through the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (soon to be Northern Macedonia), Albania, and Montenegro. I really love Northern Macedonia a lot, more than I thought I would. Here’s my happy Macedonia face (disregard the shitty facial hair, I was lazy). I…

  • Muay Thai and Pol Pot in Phnom Penh

    I sat in the airport, peering at a plane with dark mascara-like lines running down the windows of an old Airbus A-whatever. “Should I even be going here?” No one I’d talked to really liked Phnom Penh. They all went there because they had a flight out on their way to see Angkor Wat. Phnom Penh was…

  • Hop Over to Hanoi

    Hanoi is little over an hour and a half flight from Hong-Kong: making me ponder why I don’t make the journey every weekend. As I walk from the plane to Vietnamese immigration, I notice that this whole place smells like my favorite pho place back in Denver. Either they use the same floor cleaner, or…

  • The Fire Dragon

    After my journey around Macau, I finally reach home at around 3:30 in the morning. That gave me just a few hours of sleep, having to wake up at 9 am to rush down south to catch my pottery class on Hong Kong Island. I didn’t even wake my roommate up when coming or going,…