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Howdy, my name is Wade, and I have been traveling the world for the past nine years on five continents and nearly 40 countries. This is the main directory for my blog, Song of the Open Road. Look through as you will, and if you have any questions please email them to me at Vagabondsong@gmail.com.  

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July 2008 - Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Private Room in Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Camping on the Sly in a Wheat Field


June 2008 - Czech Republic/ USA (31 Posts)

Czech Republic- Photos from Prague, Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Czech Republic Bike Trails

Czech Republic- Bicycling Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Difficult to Find Internet in Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Czech Republic to Slovakia by Bicycle

Czech Republic- Bicycle Travel to Turkey

Czech Republic- Outfitting a Bicycle for Long Distance Travel

Czech Republic- Photos from Mexico

Czech Republic- Japanese Wisdom USA Culture

Czech Republic- Hostel in Olomouc on Hobohideout.com

Czech Republic- Soviet Tank Cemetery in Czech Republic 

Czech Republic- Czech Republic Beautiful Women or Short Skirts?

Czech Republic- Finding a Bicycle for Travel

Czech Republic- Czech Friends Hockey Talk Hardcore Music

Czech Republic- Olomouc: A Place to Hang my Hat

Czech Republic- Train from Prague to Olomouc

Czech Republic- One Week in Prague

Czech Republic- Israeli Street Fighter

Czech Republic- Strip Clubs in Prague

Czech Republic- Going to "Romania" with a Gypsy

Czech Republic- Previous Posts on Song of the Open Road

Czech Republic- Travel Blog Returns Home

Czech Republic- Nightlife in Prague

Czech Republic- Bars in Prague, Czech Republic

Czech Republic- Earning my Keep in Prague

Czech Republic- Travel to Prague

USA- Traveling Decisions

USA- The Devil Drives

USA-Corrupt Police in Mexico

USA- Asus Eee PC Initial Impressions

USA- Buffalo NY Friends Anarchy Nostalgia


May 2008 - USA/ Mexico/ Guatemala (30 posts):

USA- Old Man Smoking a Pipe

USA- Travel to Eastern Europe

USA- Don't Buy from Buy.com

USA- Eberhardt Novel Vagabond

USA- Photos from Tikal Flores Guatemala City

USA- Label Travel Funds- Travel Tip #13  

USA- Travel in a 1971 Ford Falcon

USA- Motorcycle Bob on the Watch

USA- Asus eee PC 900 Travel Computer

USA- Upstate New York is Beautiful

Mexico- Mexican Tattoo Magazine Stole Photos

Mexico- Beach at Cancun Mexico

Guatemala- Camping at Tikal

Guatemala- Guatemala Civil War Magazine Article

USA- 1001 Historic Sites

Guatemla/ Mexico- Blog Posts from Mexico and Guatemala

Mexico- Shelter from the Storm

Mexico- Cancun Mexico Airport

USA- Travel Blog on Blogger- Going back to Blogger (maybe).

Mexico, Guatemala- Blog Posts from Mexico and Guatemala- Blog posts that I wrote in Mexico and Guatemala.

Mexico- Shelter from the Storm- A show of generosity on the flight from Cancun to New York.                                 

Mexico- Cancun Mexico Airport- Thoughts in the Cancun, Mexico airport.

Mexico- CNN News and Traveling- Traveling is the only way to find out the stories behind the news.

Mexico- Hotel in Palenque Mexico- How I find hotels while traveling.

Guatemala- How to get to Tikal Guatemala- Made it to Tikal. Hiding out from the park rangers.

Guatemala- Bus from Antigua to Flores Guatemala- A "nice Pullman bus" suddenly turned into a chicken bus.

Guatemala- The Joy of Traveling- A letter from my aunt reveals that she began traveling at the age of 40.

Guatemala- Example Traveler- Watched a girl wash her laundry by hand, wrote a blog post about it.

Guatemala- Hobo Names on Hobo Traveler- Register your own hobo name and get full usage of Hobotraveler.com

Guatemala- Don't Touch the Electric Shower- Travel Tip #12 about the dangers of the electric shower head.


April 2008 - Guatemala (32 posts):

Guatemala- Up Pacaya Volcano- The simply journey up to a lava flow coming out of the Pacaya Volcano in Guatemala.

Guatemala- My Early Travels- A quick impression of my travels before Song of the Open Road.

Guatemala- Backpacking is Dead-Long Live the Backpacker- Thoughts about backpacking and the changing face of travel.

Guatemala- Under the Radar in Antigua- About the balance that a little bit of work a day brings and on the virtue of saying no.

Guatemala- Raising a Travel Website Child- The growing pangs, woes, and excitements of raising a travel website. 

Guatemala- Carhartt Work Boots for Travel- A post about the boots that cover my feet as I travel down the Open Road.

Guatemala- Travel Sickness in Guatemala- Sick again, fever dreams, don't know why. Travel Sickness. Antigua, Guatemala.

Guatemala- Dirty French Men and Courtship- Getting some tips on how not to court a girl from New Zealand.

Guatemala- Hippies in San Pedro, Guatemala- About a hippy town on the other side of Lake Atitlan.

Guatemala- Immigrating to the USA- The glory land at the end of the rainbow is a lot of work.

Guatemala- Boat Travel on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala- Working the hustlers of Lake Atitlan.

Guatemala- Hotel Webpages on Hobo Hideout.com- How to live in hotels for free..

Guatemala- The Battle of Ahorita- Standing my ground and getting a shower.

Guatemala- Free Hotel in Santiago Atitlan- How I stayed for free in Santiago Atitlan.

Guatemala- New Travel Blog- Why I am moving away from blogging systems.

Guatemala- Bus from Antigua to Panajachel

Guatemala- Travel Work Skills

Vietnam- Fishermen of Halong Bay Vietnam

India- Tibetan Refugees in India Photos

Guatemala- I meet the Hobo Traveler

Guatemala- Antigua Guatemala Market Photos

Guatemala- Lady The Tramp.com Female Travel Guide

Guatemala- Cheap Food in Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala- Guatemala Photos

Guatemala- On the Benefit of Animal Noises

Guatemala- Photographs from Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala- Afro-Caribbean Music in Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala- Photographs from Antigua Guatemala

Guatemala- Under the Wing of the Hobo Traveler

Guatemala- Travel Tip 11- No More Shampoo

Guatemala- Dancing Pharmacist in Antigua Guatemala

Honduras, Guatemala- Travel to Guatemala from Honduras

March 2008 - Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica (38 posts):

Honduras- Travel Tip 10- Turn a T-Shirt into Shorts

Honduras- Copan Expat Barroom Wisdom

Honduras- To Guatemala from Honduras

Honduras-Writing for Magazines and Newspapers

Honduras-Tourist Charity and Street Children

Honduras-Vagabond Journey Newsletter 002

Honduras-Copan Ruinas Travel Guide and Map

Honduras-Javanese Proverb

Honduras- Easter in Honduras

Honduras- New Niece of Vagabond Journey

Honduras- Cheap Travel in Tourist Destinations

Honduras- Sponsor Song of the Open Road

Honduras- Good Friday in Honduras

Honduras- Cockfight in Honduras Video

Honduras- The Romance of Traveling

Honduras- Travel Guidebooks: To Use or not to Use- Travel Ti...

Honduras- At the Cockfight

Honduras- Not Going to Belize

Honduras- Undernourished in Honduras

Honduras- New Travel Strategy

Honduras- El Salvador for Semana Santa

Honduras- Travel Tip 9- Turn a Plastic Bag into a Cup

Honduras- Mayan Archaeology at Copan

Honduras- Next Move from Central America

Honduras- Blog Comments and Email Slow Replies

Honduras- Mayan Warfare

Honduras- Dell Laptop on the Rocks

Honduras- A Vagabond Journey Around the World

Honduras- No Photos of Copan Archaeology

Honduras- Honduran Sunday

Honduras- Travel and Food Poisoning

Honduras- Unearthing Skeletons at Copan

Honduras- Excavating at Copan Ruins

Honduras- Mario of Copan

Honduras- Writing the Other Side of Politeness

Panama- The Sack of Panama

Nicaragua- Nicaragua North of Managua

Costa Rica, Nicaragua- Tica Bus to Managua


February 2008 - Costa Rica, Panama (32 posts):

Costa Rica- Going to Honduras

Panama- Panama is Alright

Panama- Low Density High Income Tourism

Panama- The Panama Canal

Panama- Tica Bus to Panama City

Costa Rica- On Adventure and Canals

Costa Rica- Kelty Redwing Backpack

Costa Rica- Guatemala Civil War Story

Costa Rica- Boots or Hearts

Costa Rica- Walking on up the Mountain

Costa Rica- I Win and 300 Song of the Open Road Posts

Costa Rica- Rest and Relaxation in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- No Good Feeling Here

Costa Rica- Speak Badly About the USA

Costa Rica- First 200 Visitor Day

Costa Rica- Traveling with a Computer Girlfriend

Costa Rica- Thinking of Panama

Costa Rica- Like a Rolling Stone

Costa Rica- Fired from Archaeology Job

Costa Rica- Trouble at the Boarding House

Costa Rica- Going to Nicaragua

Costa Rica- Dreaming of Cameroon

Costa Rica- To the Beach in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Like an Old Turd

Costa Rica- Travel and Love- An Unbridgeable Chasm?

Costa Rica- Vagabond Journey.com Update 2-06-08

Costa Rica- Archaeology Fieldwork in Nicaragua and Copan

Costa Rica- Tourism can be Watched on the TV Screen

Costa Rica- Cafe Abroad Article on Graffiti

Costa Rica- New Vagabond Journey Index

Costa Rica- Eating Hamburgers in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Street Crime in Costa Rica


January 2008 - Costa Rica, USA, Morocco, France (39 posts):

Costa Rica- Leaf Cutter Ants in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Alphasmart NEO for Traveling Writers

Costa Rica- Costa Rica Hotels Not Vagabond Friendly

Costa Rica- Bars, Girlfriends, and Culture in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Study Spanish in Latin America

Costa Rica- Heredia Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Swiss Army Knife Poll Ended

Costa Rica- Hate Mail From Morocco

Costa Rica- Renting an Apartment in Costa Rica

Costa Rica- Costa Rican Dance Videos

Costa Rica- Onward Tickets for One Way Travelers

Costa Rica- Swiss Army Knife Stolen

Costa Rica- The Way to Costa Rica

USA- Jet Blue Flight from Rochester to JFK

Mexico- Mexico City Airport Navigation

Costa Rica- On Becoming a Misanthrope

Costa Rica- Dell Laptops and Travel

Costa Rica- Reflections on Costa Rica

USA- Leaving Family in USA

USA- Travel to Latin America

USA- Vacation in the USA

USA- Rajasthan- Houses and Men Book Review

USA- Can Anyone Read Nepali

USA- Vagabond Journey.com On Hold

USA- Song of the Open Road Moves

USA- Thru-Hiker.com Website Review

USA- Travel Tip #7- Camping for Free

USA- Visit to USA- Back to Family

USA- Travel- Happiness- and Aging

Morocco- Salah- The Muslim Prayer

USA- Letter from Burkina Faso

USA- Shopping in the USA- The American Way

USA- Traveling and Projects

Morocco- Back in Casablanca

Morocco- Marrakech Market Video

Morocco- Impressions of Marrakesh

France- New Year's Eve in France

Morocco- A Walk Through Marrakech Video

France- On Leaving France


December 2007 - France, Portugal (32 posts):

France- Driving in France

France- Tattoos in Chile and Friends

France- New Vagabond Journey.com Newsletter

France- Epidemic in France

France- Done Waiting for the Big Day

France- Christmas in France

France- The Dancing Hitchhiker Video

France- In Montpellier France

France- Hitch-Hiking in France Part 2

France- Hitch-Hiking to Andorra in Winter Part 1

China- Essay on Mandarin Chinese Language

India- Retirement Homes in India

India- Technology in Southern India

India- Tribals of Arunachal Pradesh

India- Indian Notebook

India- Wood Carvers in India

India- The New Mask of India

India- A Visit to a South Indian Archaeology Site

France- French Hygiene and Stereotypes

France- Village Life in Southern France

India- Rajasthan: Houses and Men

France- Truphone on Facebook

France- The Tattoo Apprentice- Wanderjahr Jill

France- France is Old

France- France is Expensive

Portugal- Drinking in Lisbon- Bairro Alto

Portugal- Buy a DVD and Support Grupo Alavio

Japan- Hitch-Hiking in Japan with Mr. Fuji

Portugal- Graffiti in Portugal: The Other Side of the Wall

Portugal- On Portuguese Graffiti- Interview with Mr.Dheo

Portugal- Portuguese Graffiti Artist Eskema- Interview

Portugal- Youth Hosteling International Rip-Off Stamp Cards


November 2007 - Portugal (32 posts):

Portugal- On Leaving Vila Nova de Milfontes, Portugal

Portugal- Back to Latin America- Time to Dance- Again

Portugal- The Hobo and the Swiss Army Fairy Video

Portugal- Wade from Vagabond Journey.com is a Cheater

Portugal- Late Night Thanksgiving Day Visit to the Sea

Portugal- Cultural Questions

Portugal- The Siesta in Portugal

Portugal- Thanksgiving on the Road

Portugal- Vagabond Journey.com in Internet Explorer

Portugal- First 100 Visitor Day

Portugal- Isabelle Eberhardt

Portugal- Isabelle Eberhardt: An Interview with the Kathleen...

Portugal- Sex on the Beach and a Haircut

Portugal- Vagabond Journey.com Website is Up

Portugal- Vila Nova de Milfontes, Portugal

Portugal- On Climbing a Cliff

Portugal- Ryan Air or The Penny Flight that Wasn't

Portugal- When Two Travelers Fall in Love

Portugal- The Trauma of Building a Website

Portugal- Fireworks . . .and the Pogues

Portugal- Travel Tip #6- Avoid International Bus and Train S...

Morocco- Moroccan Food Strategy

Portugal- Interview with Travel Blogs.com

Japan- In Search of a Tattoo in the New Japan

Portugal- Setubal to Vila Nova de Milfontes by Bicycle

Portugal- Vagabond Community News Update- November 6, 2007

Portugal- Traveling Stories Magazine Travel Writing Contest

Portugal- Interview with the Traveler, Loren Everly

Portugal- The Joys of Traveling by Bicycle

Portugal- Burroughs' Interzone Found

Portugal- By Bicycle: from Lisbon to Setubal, Portugal Part ...

Portugal- Graffiti in Portugal


October 2007 - Portugal, Gibraltar, Spain, Morocco (19 posts):

Portugal- By Bicycle: from Lisbon to Setubal, Portugal Part ...

Portugal- On Masterpieces and Messes

Portugal- In Lisbon

Portugal- To Portugal

Gibraltar- Up the Great Rock of Gibraltar

Portugal- By Bike: From Lisbon, Portugal to France

Morocco/ Spain- The Ferry from Tangier to Algeciras

Morocco- The End of Ramadan

Morocco- The End of the Road: Figuig

Morocco- Warnings from Casablanca

Morocco- As My Youth Prepares to Set Sail, I Mistake North ...

Morocco- On Moroccan Touts

Morocco- In Meknes, Morocco

Morocco- Unexpected Moroccan Discoveries or: Girl Talk is B...

Morocco- Trust and Travel and the Complexities of Adventure...

Morocco- Travel Tip #5- Not Your Friend

Morocco- The Breaking of the Fast: A View of Ramadan from t...

Morocco- Feeding the Beast with the Written Word

Nicaragua- Erik the Broken Hearted


September 2007 - Morocco, England, USA (43 posts):

Morocco- Community of Great Traveling Websites

Morocco- I Commence My Dance with the Language of Love

Morocco- The End of the Fruit Man and the Challenge of Obta...

Morocco- Renewed Spirits in Meknes

Morocco- Cancion del Vagabundo Homepage Update

Morocco- The Breaking of the Fast: A View of Ramadan from t...

Morocco- These Days in Meknes

Morocco- A Traveller . . .

Morocco- Traveller Tip #4- Wash Your Laundry While You Show...

Morocco- Vagabond Community News Update, 9/22/07

Morocco- Great Travel Books: The Royal Road to Romance

Morocco- Moroccan Women's Clothing, Photos and Video

Morocco- Comfortable in Meknes

Morocco- Room #16, Maroc Hotel, Meknes, Morocco

Morocco- Now Introducing: My Characters

Morocco- Meknes vs. Fes

Morocco- Four Sinners Search for a Birthday Beer

Morocco- I Find Contentment in Friends of the Road (and lau...

Morocco- I Sidestep a Lunatic and Make a Friend

Morocco- The Routine Hassles of Travelling in a Tourist's W...

Morocco- I Unwittingly Celebrate Ramadan, too

Morocco- Thoughts in Fes

Morocco- Preparing for Ramadan

Morocco- The Way to Fes

Morocco- On Leaving Rabat

Morocco- Traveller Tip #3- Saddlebags

Morocco- The Toilet: Always Room for Cultural Misinterpreta...

Morocco- Chellah Ruins

Morocco- From Casablanca to Rabat

Morocco- Friends in Casablanca: The Tunisian Veterinarian

Morocco- Friends in Casablanca- The Brothers

Morocco- I Move on to Rabat, and Eat Well

Morocco- Through Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Seneg...

Morocco- Travel Videos from Casablanca, Morocco

Morocco- I Awake to Teaspoons Clanking- Am I in France?

Morocco- First Impressions of Morocco

Morocco- Casablanca Medina Video

Morocco- First Walk in Morocco

England- I Think I Shook England

USA- Through new York City, Again

USA- Travel Plans: First Month in Morocco

USA- Shanghai Test Video


August 2007 - USA (21 posts):

USA- Preparing for Morocco

USA- Traveller Tip 1- Write of Your Travels

USA- Rambling and the Process of Being at "Home"

USA- Video Test, The Archaeological Survey

India- Article on Tibetan Refugees in Bylakuppe, India

USA- To North Africa, The Sahara

USA- The Real Impacts of Writing

USA- Great Travel Books, A Vagabond Journey Around the ...

USA- Philadelphia, PA

USA- Alphasmart Writing Devices

USA- To Korea

USA- Hanover, PA

USA- The Video Question

USA- The Lonely Road

USA- To Make, Or Not Make, Videos

USA- Cancion del Vagabundo Website

USA- To Philadelphia

USA- The Archaeology

USA- Chinatowns: New York, Philadelphia and my Love

USA- Wealth, Happiness, Time-pass, and the dark hole of...


July 2007 - USA, Thailand, Vietnam (10 posts):

USA- Up Mt. Washington

USA- Boston, China Town, and the Columbian

USA- The Ice King of Boston

USA- The Way to Boston

USA- Travels of Old/ New Website

USA- Things are hard in the USA

USA- Back in the USA

Thailand- Thailand

Vietnam- On Leaving Another Country

Vietnam- Hanoi, Vietnam


June 2007 - Vietnam, China (6 posts):

Vietnam- A visit to the US Embassy

Vietnam- Coming to Hanoi

Vietnam- A test

China- Nanning, Guangxi Autonomous Region

China- On to Vietnam

China- By Train Across Southern China


May 2007 - China, Mongolia, China (16 posts):

China- Hitching across the Middle Kingdom

Mongolia- Back Across the Great Buddha Arch

Mongolia- In Search of Burt the Dutchman

Mongolia- Map of Mongolia

Mongolia- Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Mongolia- Frontier of Mongolia

China- On Leaving China

China- To Mongolia!

China- Beijing Saga Youth Hostel

China- Beijing, the Great Wall, and the Knot

China- The line to Beijing

China- Qingdao, P.R. China

China- Pants-less Women in China

China- Tai Shan pilgrimage

China- Shanghai, May Day holiday

China- Pedestrian traffic jams and Chinese holidays


April 2007 - China (25 posts):

China- Later Hangzhou

China- Camel toes and Hangzhous, fashion perplexes me aga...

China- Pants-less Chinese women

China- Around Hangzhou

China- Some words to live by

China- Youth Hostels..little isles of somewhere else

China- Moving out

China- A message from a friend

China- Leaving Hangzhou

China- Asia Travels with Stubbs, 2005

China- Shaoxing, more photos

China- Shaoxing, China- Home of Lu Xun

China- University language instruction= looking out windo...

China- Back in Hangzhou

India- Overseas Chinese in India, part II

India- Overseas Chinese in India, part I

India- Seekers of Refuge in a Land of No Return

India- Tibetan Refugee Camp, Bylakuppe, India

India- Bylakkupe photos

India- Tibetan Refugee Camp- Bylakuppe

India- Monkey Invasion

India- India, Autumn 2006 photos

India- Photos from India, Autumn 2006

India- India photos, autumn 2006

China- In Chinese Medicine class


April 2006 - China (4 posts):

China- Around China

China- A Good Honking Path

China- Longjing Tea Hills

China- The Hills of Hangzhou


February 2006 - China (1 post):

China- Ho-Tei Pilgramage, New Years, Hangzhou


January 2006 - China, USA (7 posts):

China- China; old map

USA- ahhh, my passport has returned

China- Old Hangzhou

USA- Traveller quote, Kerouac, Big Sur

USA- Traveller quotes, The Drifters, James Michener

USA- New Years Eve, Buffalo,NY

USA- Farmer bar, fields and orchards, western New York ...


December 2005 - USA (12 posts):

Japan- Kyoto train terminal, Wade the angel

USA- Archaeological excavation photos from Pine Island,...

USA- Chinese visa

USA- ...and some people pose in camouflage

Japan- In Search of a Traditional Japanese Tattoo

USA- "travel clinics" in the USA

USA- Getting use to computers

USA- Western NY Christmas with family

USA- Western NY Christmas

USA- Delaware

USA- Owego, NY

USA- Back to China


November 2005 - about Japan from USA (10 posts):

Japan- Hitching through Japan Part I, 88 temple pilgramag...

USA- In Upstate NY visiting family. Wondering why I am ...

USA- PHOTO- With hair

USA- PHOTO- with no hair

USA- PHOTO- Wade and Sir Wade to the Max

USA- PHOTO- Horseshoes and rattails

Japan- PHOTO- Sexy moma Dana in Kyoto

Japan- PHOTO- Drunk in hidden away bar, Kyoto, Japan

Japan- PHOTO- At family home, Orchards and Fields, upsta...

Japan- PHOTO- Just before stripping and jumping in Lake ...