The contents of my stomach sloshed back and forth as we ascended the foggy Shiwalik Hills—a section of the Himalayan foothills—into Darjeeling, India, a town of just over 100,000. The roads were ridden with potholes, and sliced back and forth into the hills, forming the pattern a falling leaf would have. At roughly 4,000 feet, [...] Continue Reading

Lost Hope in the Bowels of America. Under The Docks. Terrible Psychosis…They’ll Never Find Us Now! I ran my fingers through the cold sand on a pleasantly warm Wednesday morning on the beach in Coney Island, enjoying the wind whipping my face and watching the waves break and the water roll back out. Clumps of brown [...] Continue Reading

If you are planning to go to Costa Rica, don’t bother. The mall would be more suitable for hanging out with fat Americans inflating prices, pollution and their guts. Why would you escape to a beautiful country full of friendly Mesoamerican and Andean descendants, to rub elbows with the same culture you are taking a [...] Continue Reading

The waves have died, but the streets are swarming with Muslim vacationers from Java, buzzing the crowded streets on scooters and sightseeing down shopper-friendly sidewalks. We just got off an eight-day catamaran surf charter to arrive back on this tropical island during the last week of Ramadan. That’s around the same time of the terrorist [...] Continue Reading

Zurich, the Cultural Capital of Switzerland and the city with the best quality of life in the world, has its own song. Zurich Tourism created a video that shows the nicest places in and around the city underlined by a pop song. I like the song, but what bothers me is that the lyrics are in German language instead of Swiss German dialect. Don’t [...] Continue Reading

Editor’s Note: On Friday October 4th 2008, Taylor Graham and her new theater company, ATLAS Stage Productions Canada, embarked on their first Poland/Austria tour of George F. Walker’s “Theatre of the Film Noir.” Their goal? To administrate/tech a European tour having hardly seen a map of Poland. Oh, and let’s not forget… Two out [...] Continue Reading

Yet another thing we need to worry about while at the airport. Word has it that Homeland Security is now testing the next generation of scanners to screen you while at the airport- a body scanner that apparently can read your mind. A new system called MALINTENT is a machine that searches you body for non-verbal cues [...] Continue Reading

RoneBreak contributor Sebastiano Mereu checks in from his trip to Japan… After arriving in Osaka from Tokyo, I deposited my bags in a locker at Umeda Station. When I opened the locker, I saw a sticker on the inside saying something like ‘please don’t climb into this locker,’ in Japanese. I was surprised. Who would ever [...] Continue Reading

Coming back from Iojima, a very nice island off the coast of Nagasaki, Japan, I saw a sign written in Hiragana stating a ship’s name: ‘biggu a—su.’ I immediately turned to my fiancée Aya—she is Japanese—asking her why anyone would name his or her ship Big Ass. Aya laughed and said that the ship’s name [...] Continue Reading

Check out this Bike rollercoaster outside an art center as part of Designhuis’ Bicycle exhibition in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This 2 meter peaking thrill ride was created by artist Anders Jakobsen, aka Lagombra, with the use of a chainsaw and scaffolding. So far only one brave bicyclist has been able to complete one full run. [...] Continue Reading

I’ve played in bands since I was in 6th grade. My first “tour” was done in a Ford Explorer hitched to a rented U-Haul trailer. We got kicked out of our hotel in Gary, Indiana for launching fireworks out our window, drinking underage and having a stripper in our room from the strip club next [...] Continue Reading

Eight (8) natural and nineteen (19) cultural sites have been added to the UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The World Heritage List includes 878 properties considered to be of “outstanding universal value.” The newest members of the gang can be found below… New Natural properties: Joggins Fossil Cliffs (Canada) Mount Sanqingshan National Park (China) Lagoons of New Caledonia: [...] Continue Reading