Category Archives: Random Musings

The Brick Wall Of Eternal Dissatisfaction

By Tom | Published: March 4, 2010
It occurred over the fest­ive sea­son, when I had the pleas­ure of host­ing Fear­ghal and Simon in Yerevan for a very merry Christ­mas and New Year. Con­ver­sa­tion had turned to bicycle travel, as it had an annoy­ing habit of doing every few minutes. Fear­ghal and I were dis­cuss­ing motiv­a­tions for future bike trips. “It just wasn’t [...]
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Why I Can’t Live In Armenia (I’m Too British)

By Tom | Published: January 23, 2010
My life is bor­ing. My daily routine con­sists of get­ting up an hour before sun­rise, going for a run, jump­ing into (and rap­idly out of) a cold shower, hav­ing break­fast and then sit­ting down for an 8-to-12-hour stint in front of my com­puter screen. I am mak­ing web­sites for a liv­ing these days. It puts [...]
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This Is About Us

By Tom | Published: December 15, 2009
This is the moment at which we turn and face ourselves. Here, in the plastic cor­ridors and crowded stalls, among impen­et­rable texts and with­er­ing pro­ced­ures, human­kind decides what it is and what it will become. It chooses whether to con­tinue liv­ing as it has done, until it must make a waste­land of its home, or [...]
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While You’re Waiting, You Might Enjoy…

By Tom | Published: July 23, 2009
Maybe you’ve been enjoy­ing read­ing about my escapades in far-flung lands. And maybe you’re not par­tic­u­larly enthralled by the idea of read­ing up on my ran­dom mus­ings, pre­par­a­tions and escapades as I remain rel­at­ively static for the next few months. If so, look no fur­ther, as I have a few sug­ges­tions that may just keep [...]
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Is Hitchhiking Still Viable?

By Tom | Published: January 8, 2009
I am com­mit­ted to avoid­ing fly­ing for tour­ism. Com­mer­cial air travel has been in exist­ence for less than a hun­dred years. There must be another way. This prob­ably meant that there were far fewer trav­el­lers, of course, but it prob­ably also meant that those who did par­take of long-term, long-distance voy­ages gained an intim­ate know­ledge [...]
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