The author wrote this account of his Loire Valley bicycle trip for a local newspaper in 2002. We are reprinting it here with his kind permission. A bike was the perfect way to see France’s romantic Loire Valley. When I told my friends I was going on a five-day bicycling tour of the Loire Valley […]
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A Gay Date Through the Streets of Cairo
Reblogged with permission by the Breakaway Backpacker, Jaime Davila The door-opened lights went on in the dorm as if it was not 2am. I woke up pissed, but was freezing cold and needed to pee. I realized it was the hostel worker showing people the dorm. I handled my business, and then went up to […]


