A botanical garden that also serves as habitat for wildlife?  That is exactly what the Desert Botanical Garden is and I am so very down with that! Located right outside of the city of Phoenix, Arizona in the Sonora desert, the Desert Botanical Garden is...

My sister, we’ll call her Ass-Flap, was recently doing a stretch in the Peace Corps serving in the Dominican Republic.  Ass-Flap's job was basically to help the natives masturbate better or some shit (less use of a machete during the act and more use of...

Sometimes I bite people. As a kid, people would feed me all of the time without me even asking for food.  Those were glorious times - free food and I didn't have to bite anyone to get it (I still bit the shit out of...

Baby elephants, it is hard not to love them! I mean, the human toddler-like playfulness, the short legs, and that little trunk! Akin to the most hairless of hairless apes (mmmm, hairless apes), baby elephants are completely dependent on Ma elephant.  Ma makes sure that Junior is...

Part 1 of this orphaned baby elephant blog can be found here. After three flights covering three continents I was finally at The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Time to see some wee elephants and to meet my elephant-son, Rapa. Upon entering the orphanage, we were told...

Scenario:  you have decided to live life on your own swashbuckling terms.  That means no more time is going to pass henceforth with items on your bucket-list going unfulfilled.  It is time for you to go and do something awesome that you have always...

Some nature-boys/girls cut their scientific-teeth by going to live with chimps, gorillas, wolves, or even hyenas.  I have no scientific teeth, or teeth of any kind, to explain why I went native with a crew of Canadian geese, but it sure as hell happened. In...

I like big snakes and I cannot lie! I like the idea of big snakes lurking in their nature habitats.  I like the idea of big snakes constricting the poop out of delicious animals, unhinging their jaws to consume said delicious animals, and then relaxing...

This blog is about my first-time experience using the home-sharing premise known as Airbnb.  This is not a shill piece for Airbnb.  As seeing incredible wildlife requires quite a bit of travel I thought that I would share this experience for anyone interested in potentially using...

Today, I was in the middle of a three hour drive when the email alert of my phone woke me up from a deep sleep (I was dreaming about zombies, as per usual).  How do I sleep while driving, you ask?  That is my...