Bootstrappin’

I didn’t know that iPods could get altitude sickness, but my iPod has been pretty sick ever since I arrived in Tibet. I’ve got a fifth generation 60GB Video iPod, and whenever I get above about 3,500 meters in elevation (a little over 10,000) feet, it wonks out. Its poor hard drive starts making those [...]

From my understanding, this is what a typical chap brings when he goes hitchhiking: Bindle. Pack of Smokes and/or large block of chewin’ tobacky. Harmonica. Can of beans. Knife. Anything beyond that is probably unnecessary. Then again, we’re traveling around the world for months, to first world and developing nations. We’ll be staying anywhere from [...]