Adventure

Today I am going to tell you a little bit about this project, what exactly this project is, and what these Vagabond write-ups are and are not, so that you can know what to expect. Then, I’ll share just how we got started on it.

Hello Fellow Vagabonds! Are you ready to rock? 🤟 My name is Julia, and I am an insufferable Tool fan. (“Hiii Julia!”). I am an anthropologist ethnographer joining Vagabond Journey while I follow the rock band Tool for a number of shows on their current, quickly selling-out Fear Inoculum tour, doing an ethnographic study of [...]

What it’s really all about.

A 12,000 kilometer trans-Eurasian journey has come to an end.

It can be difficult to tell travel stories sometimes, to impress upon listeners the magic and mystery, and this story is but one example. I’ve told it dozens of times, sometimes a little bit drunken, sometimes to other travelers, and sometimes to myself if a day has become frustrating at work and I need an [...]

An off-hand snapshot landed the author in a police interrogation room in remote Xinjiang. Discover the tactics he used to break free.

A journey into Rajasthan turns into a downward spiral of misadventure — the India experience.

Left without a dime (seriously) on Cyprus, what’s a vagabond to do? Find out here.

What would you do if you were traveling in a foreign country and all of a sudden had all of your money taken from you?