You may find this difficult to believe, but this past March in the year two thousand and eighteen, the year of our Lord, I, Ryan Thomas Dunn, entered an agreement to live with a woman for an entire month. Now, to get some of the obvious questions out of the way… One) No, there wasn’t […]
Struggles
I Just Traveled Around the World for a Year and Don’t You Dare Ask Me What My Favorite Country Was
Future Ryan is kind of a dick. He’s constantly complaining to me, Present-Day Ryan, that I never think about him. Just whining and griping that I need to think about the future and Future Ryan. Future Ryan thinks he’s holier than thou. He’ll tell Present-Day Ryan things like “You really shouldn’t eat week-old Chinese food […]
A Look Back at Pre-Travel Prop Bets
The year was 2017. May 2017, to be exact. A young boy with a passport and a dream was about to take off on an adventure around the globe. To say he didn’t know what he was getting himself into was a gross, gross under statement. Like any digital douche with an iPhone and an […]
My Dad Forced Himself into Surgery Because He Didn’t Want to Leave Bogota Colombia
My dad is my hero in every way you can possibly imagine. He works hard, he never complains, he does everything in his power to be a great father and husband and to make life better for our family. I love him very much and I’m not sure what I’d do without him. After 26 […]
Buried Alive | A Friend’s Farewell
This one time in Colombia, I buried a friend alive… He was a good man. Tall and handsome, his piercing blue eyes made him no stranger to attention at any bar or night club. If you just took a quick look, you’d never guess that he could have children celebrating their 21st birthdays all over […]
I Know My Hair Sucks
Let me say this loud and clear… I know my hair sucks. You think I don’t know? I can’t get on a FaceTime or a Google Hangout or get tagged in a picture without someone audibly gasping or gently telling me that they think my hair is a pile of steaming hot garbage. The public […]
Surfing the Longest Wave in the World: An Erotic Novel
Chicama, Peru. Home of “The World’s Longest Wave.” I don’t know a whole lot of Spanish, but I do know that “Las Olas” means “waves.” It also happens to be the name of this taco shop in my hometown with some unbelievable salsa where the high school kids go after school to make out in […]
First Football-less Sunday
It was dark. The wounds still fresh. Sunday morning had finally rolled around and you knew there was no football to watch. 5 month’s worth of beer and chicken wings and queso dip start to resurface and settled in the back of your throat. A feeling of nausea and sadness wash over your body as […]
The Shirt
When you travel for an extended period of time, there isn’t exactly a ton flexibility when it comes to bringing along a diverse wardrobe. A shirt here, a few shorts there, and a whole lot of underwear. When I left home 8 months ago I brought along a backpack and a single rolling suitcase. Every […]
Why Overnight Travel is an Alternate Universe
Travel sucks. Like the actual physical act of “traveling” sucks big time. And overnight travel is even worse. Whether by plane, train or automobile, everyone has their own war story and everyone will tell you that what happened to them was the worst thing to ever happen in the history of travel. “Can you believe […]