Spain is one of those places that everybody hates for their first three hours. You're new in town, jetlagged to hell and back, and all you want to do is find someplace to eat. But it's 4 PM. Every god damn restaurant in the city is closed down for siesta and the guy who's supposed to check you in is … [Read more...]
Elsewhere Plans: Once More, With Feeling August 2014
One thing I learned entering the second year of Elsewhere Plans: it's gonna be a hell of a lot easier this year. Turns out, a lot of things worth going to are worth going to twice. Who know? I'll be updating as necessary, but much of the information is a foundation on which to build a solid Animal … [Read more...]
Elsewhere Plans: If you say you’re not having fun, July’in’.
This is a very special edition of Elsewhere Plans, because it marks the one year anniversary of the beginning of the feature. Man. 12 whole editions. Of course, I missed a month once, but let's go ahead and say it operates under the "13th floor of a hotel" principle. Just ignore it. I'm gonna do … [Read more...]
Elsewhere Plans: Boom in June 2014
And thus we enter the first real month of Summer for the northern hemisphere. Otherwise known as the hemisphere where shit actually goes down. With love to those crazy Southies, of course, and I'll take that back when New Zealand and Uruguay start pumping festivals out their wazoos, but the North … [Read more...]
Elsewhere Plans: May Flowers 2014
I'm gonna try to be positive here. There are so many awesome festivals to go to this month. A nice mix of cultural festivals to really make you feel like you've delved into a new part of the world, and a spattering of music festivals to keep your sense of karma and health chemically castrated. But I … [Read more...]