Costumes and decorations are but a brief depiction of the true state of things. But my eyes are open; we live in a perpetual Halloween.
Poké to Go
Category: Uncharted Dives: the Seven Seas
Flies in the Vaseline (we are)
The quaint airport has more the feel of an open air airport in the Philippines than one of Philadelphia. I take a deep breath in and head to the rental.. “Now what?”
Cigarette Breaks on the Isle of Tumbledown
Vic returns to the ruins of his hurricane-swept hometown where the ghosts of his father’s island still linger.
Bubbles Always Rise
In the ocean, no one can hear you scream… but they might see your bubbles.
Vic must rely on all of his maritime wisdom to negotiate turbulent times aboard a cruise ship.
A Barfly of Bonaire
The Chicago Handshake (and other portents of doom)
Vic’s curses are reversed with shots of Malört, but all is not smooth sailing in summertime Chicago.
Swallowers of the Damned
Vic & his band of misfit egyptologists are crawling inside pyramids, chasing sphinxes and sailing the Nile while sipping on a boat drink or two…
Spring Breaking in the Devil’s Triangle
Eels & Exoduses of Aqaba
Vic has kicked off his scuba gear to join a Jordanian dinner party in the Red Sea coastal town of Aqaba. History & Alchemy are discussed over glasses of arak liquor.
A Bubbly Remedy for Equatorial Malaise
Vic is fevered & delusional in the Galapagos as he contemplates his devolution back into the sea.