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Nick

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About Me

Wanderer, traveller, journalist, hitchhiker... I'm not sure what comes next... Travelled Europe East and West, Russia, Mexico, Central and South America... My last job was a city hall reporter for the Rio Grande SUN newspaper in Espanola, New Mexico, the best little muckraking newspaper in the country. I want to write a book before I die, something like a blend of Jack Kerouac's On The Road and Studs Terkel's Working... Right now, I'm bicycling in Baja, Mexico for a few months... see my blog

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Jesus if I had a time machine and could speak Aramaic, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Emma Goldman, Jane Goodall, Stuart Gordon, Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka, the guy that directed The Item, Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel...

My Blog

dead body floating...

When dead bodies began washing up onshore, I figured it was time to go. The place was El Coyote beach, one of the prettiest in all of the Bahia de Concepcion. The dead man was a Mexican who had lived ...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:11:00 GMT

21 beers

21 beers. The bill was 390 pesos, also for a meal, which means I spent about $32 on Dos Equis beer. That was sort of an act of sacrilege on this trip where I´ve been trying to improve my health. I had...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:37:00 GMT

510 down, 480 to go...

From Baja: I´m halfway there. I´ve bicycled about 510 miles and have about 480 more to go to get to La Paz. Today I was a tourist and went out into Ojo de Liebre (Scammon´s Lagoon) in Guerrero Negro (...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:09:00 GMT

cycling by moonlight

emailed Jan. 31... Bicycling by moonlight on the sierras of Baja is beautiful. After nearly freezing the night before camped in an arroyo near an abandoned home, I decided to try my luck riding at ni...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:14:00 GMT

viento...

emailed Jan. 23... Bicycling Baja: As I bragged to the taco lady it only took me three days to get to her town (San Vicente) from San Diego, the guy next to me said with a sneer, "It only takes six ho...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:12:00 GMT

my trip to Baja

I thought I would post my emails from my trip to Baja on this blog. Here they are... emailed Jan. 19... Emails from a trip to Baja, Mexico...Oh, how I missed the Mexican street food. Forget about goin...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:08:00 GMT

headed to Baja

In but a few more days, I will be headed to Baja, Mexico on my trusty bicycle. I'm toying with the idea of keeping a blog while I'm down there, meditating on travel, culture and politics. For any of y...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:14:00 GMT

what the fuck?

What is the purpose of our existence? Every time I quit a job, I think a lot about this question. It's like jobs are drugs to keep us from thinking about it...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 22:02:00 GMT