The Challenge - Part 4.
WE'RE HERE TO FUCK SHIT UP The passenger van made its way through the winding narrow streets and down towards the water. I could tell...
The Challenge - Part 3.
FINDING A BALANCE I awoke to the sound of a call to prayer in the faint distance, coming through the open window of my hotel room. I...
The Challenge - Part 2.
THE COST OF FREEDOM The plane touched down in Istanbul around 2pm. I only had a moment to catch a glimpse of the oldest city on earth...
The Challenge - Part 1.
SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO I woke up to a phone call at midnight. I held it in my hand and contemplated letting it go to voicemail as I...
Food Far From Home
If you have never eaten and drank a full meal with true Chinese friends, you should make it a point to, as it is one of the most...
Welcoming In The New Year
2014 may very well have been both the hardest and best year of my life. I didn't believe my dad when he told me as a kid that life only...
Beethoven Was a Punk Rocker
It seems that we are just a small part of a much bigger picture. This whole trip has arisen from the fact that there were 100 million (a...
Rebel Rebel
It also seems that we are just a small part of a much bigger picture. All of this trip has arisen from the fact that there were 100...
Keepers of the Light
Daniel, the drummer from the band, So So Modern, was a New Zealander whom I had just met minutes ago through a friend of a friend, and he...
She’s Got it All
Whatever I had in mind of what Shanghai would be like I was wrong. I expected Shanghai to be modern big city, but not once did I...