I’m back. After spending 13 hours in the Portland airport I finally arrived back from my trip to Japan. Honestly, it is not as culturally crazy as many people would lead you to believe. Don’t get me wrong, if you want to find craziness and fringe culture it is definitely there in abundance (just like [...]
I am leaving for Tokyo in a couple of days and I am totally unprepared. I am not really a planner by nature and tend to just go with the flow when I travel but this time I feel especially discombobulated. My usual MO is to go somewhere with nothing other than things that I [...]
I went back home to Chicago this weekend to hang out with friends and celebrate a buddy’s birthday. It was a great time in addition to being a learning experience. Here are some of the things that I found out: Phones don’t work properly – BB (my friend who was celebrating his birthday) got a [...]
Note: This is a continuation from a previous post about various road trip experiences I have had – if you have not read it you can catch up here. Ontario – “Wait… was that a sign for New York?” Sophomore year in college I organized a winter formal in Toronto, Ontario. The main reason was [...]
I have written in the past about slowing things down and not worrying about making things faster so we would be able to enjoy the things around us more. I still believe that but I know one thing for sure – waiting sucks. There are many different times in life where you are required to [...]
So… after ranting about our society at the precipice of a giant metaphorical toilet bowl I have been conspicuously absent from my own website. Have I been busy/lazy/tired/bored/apathetic and the thought of writing on ultraparadoxical.com been a bit daunting of late? Yes – but I am back and reinvigorated… kind of… maybe… a little bit. [...]
I love road trips. They are all about doing many of the things that I love – bullshitting with friends, listening to music and napping. I have been on many in my lifetime, some with family others with friends and even a few animals mixed in. Each one has its own feel and there is [...]
I spent over 9 hours on a plane or at an airport yesterday! Wheeeee! I shouldn’t bitch, I don’t mind traveling at all really – it is a good time to read, think or do things you otherwise I would not do if I was already at my destination. For the most part I travel [...]