Cool Shade Hostel is where the indoctrination truly begins — a backpacker’s paradise doubling as R.E.I.N. headquarters, and the setting for a jungle trek that ends in a terrifying waterfall jump in Laos. In the morning, I wake up at…
Frog Legs follows a trail from Yangshuo’s misty river bends to a secret farmhouse, where a duck-carrying stranger and Hey Guevara reveal the hidden philosophy behind R.E.I.N. Following Mr. Yellow’s lead, I took a train from Shanghai to the Chinese…
Jacky is a journey through Laos that begins on a broken-down bus and ends somewhere between conspiracy, connection, and unexpected freedom. We drive through green and dappled light, passengers getting off every couple of hours at bus stops and banana…
My True Love is a secret agent lost memories story — where black ops, old rivalries, and a fading love collide inside the mind of a man who no longer trusts his own dreams. Interpol has a funny way of…
Mr. Yellow is a mysterious encounter travel story about a cryptic stranger, a white stone, and a warning that stretches from a bar in China to the Himalayas. Mr. Yellow: A Warning from the Himalayas I spotted him beyond the…
Two-Stringed Violin is a Yangshuo travel story about a chance encounter with a one-armed calligrapher, and the strange, magnetic pull of a night spent wandering West Street. The sun sets over West Street as I wander the cobblestone streets. The…
This Isn’t Just a Souvenir begins at the Laos border crossing — a broken-down bus, a handful of strangers, and the start of an unlikely friendship that captures everything unpredictable about backpacking Southeast Asia. The bus died as soon as…
Sam Iam vs. Jack Sour is a dark spy satire that plunges into interrogation, betrayal, and the blurred line between truth and propaganda in modern China. There are moments on the bus when you wake up with a start and…
Welcome to F*ck, Drink, Shit — a raw, unfiltered notes-from-the-road account of one westerner in China, chasing soap, cheeseburgers, and sanity through the chaos of Kunming. In the morning, I went back to Guilin Station and stood before an incomprehensible…
Welcome to Klickitat Street — a foul-mouthed, dark comedy short story and irreverent Henry Huggins parody that reimagines a beloved childhood neighborhood gone completely off the rails. “Moms ain’t gone do me like that,” Henry muttered to himself as he…