Ok so it's still 2013 here in Mexico and it's been an amazing year!
Am getting my drink on at home right now and getting ready to head out and party into 2014.
From a travel related viewpoint, lets hear your story of 2013, where did you go and when?
There was a thread like this about this time one year ago and it was really interesting so I would love to hear about your 2013.
I guess I should get the ball rolling....
Jan - Spent last NY in Cape Town and the rest of Jan traveling along the whole south coast of the country and then up to Pretoria and J'burg.
Feb through April - Flew from J'burg to San Francisco in Feb. Flight paid for by a silicon valley millionaire dude who read my book and wanted to meet me. Nice! Spent most of the time in SF making a documentary but partied at the SFSX festival in Austin in April before leaving the US. SFSX was amazing as always!
May / June - Medellin, Colombia. I used to live there but had not visited for a few years so that was cool.
July - Sept - Flew to Vegas to play the world series of poker (with a stop off in Miami) in early July. Spoke at a conference on sexuality in Atlanta in Aug. Made my first ever trips to several US cities including Chicago, Phoenix (another speaking / book signing gig), Milwaukee (actually my favourite US city on this trip), took a side trip to Toronto by car (more documentary filming) and spent time in Boston, NY and Miami. Visited LA, met and filmed with porn stars (documentary footage only - don't get any ideas!!) and ended up at Neil Strauss's house in Malibu - bizarre!
Oct - Dec - Hit up Jamaica and Cuba (mostly Cuba) in Oct/early Nov with Naughty Nomad before decamping to Mexico. Just rented an apartment here and decided to stop FUCKING TRAVELING and work on the follow up to Sex 3.0.
Seriously I love it - traveling gives you a sense of adventure and a taste for life like nothing else in the world but, at the same time, travelling can be so fucking exhausting!!
In review a slightly odd year for me because I usually spend very little time in the USA (I am not American and I have not even been there since 2010) but I ended up spending about half the year there in 2013 for work related reasons.
My plans for 2014? Well I have been nowhere in central america so am toying with the idea of spending a few months hitting up every single country in central america.
Beyond that, I am gonna improvise. I have no idea where else I am going to be in 2014 but in that sense it reflects where I was exactly one year ago until some dude paid to fly me to the USA.
Would love to hear your story and your plans for the new year.
Happy new year to all the RVF members and here is to an awesome 2014!
JJ.
Am getting my drink on at home right now and getting ready to head out and party into 2014.
From a travel related viewpoint, lets hear your story of 2013, where did you go and when?
There was a thread like this about this time one year ago and it was really interesting so I would love to hear about your 2013.
I guess I should get the ball rolling....
Jan - Spent last NY in Cape Town and the rest of Jan traveling along the whole south coast of the country and then up to Pretoria and J'burg.
Feb through April - Flew from J'burg to San Francisco in Feb. Flight paid for by a silicon valley millionaire dude who read my book and wanted to meet me. Nice! Spent most of the time in SF making a documentary but partied at the SFSX festival in Austin in April before leaving the US. SFSX was amazing as always!
May / June - Medellin, Colombia. I used to live there but had not visited for a few years so that was cool.
July - Sept - Flew to Vegas to play the world series of poker (with a stop off in Miami) in early July. Spoke at a conference on sexuality in Atlanta in Aug. Made my first ever trips to several US cities including Chicago, Phoenix (another speaking / book signing gig), Milwaukee (actually my favourite US city on this trip), took a side trip to Toronto by car (more documentary filming) and spent time in Boston, NY and Miami. Visited LA, met and filmed with porn stars (documentary footage only - don't get any ideas!!) and ended up at Neil Strauss's house in Malibu - bizarre!
Oct - Dec - Hit up Jamaica and Cuba (mostly Cuba) in Oct/early Nov with Naughty Nomad before decamping to Mexico. Just rented an apartment here and decided to stop FUCKING TRAVELING and work on the follow up to Sex 3.0.
Seriously I love it - traveling gives you a sense of adventure and a taste for life like nothing else in the world but, at the same time, travelling can be so fucking exhausting!!
In review a slightly odd year for me because I usually spend very little time in the USA (I am not American and I have not even been there since 2010) but I ended up spending about half the year there in 2013 for work related reasons.
My plans for 2014? Well I have been nowhere in central america so am toying with the idea of spending a few months hitting up every single country in central america.
Beyond that, I am gonna improvise. I have no idea where else I am going to be in 2014 but in that sense it reflects where I was exactly one year ago until some dude paid to fly me to the USA.
Would love to hear your story and your plans for the new year.
Happy new year to all the RVF members and here is to an awesome 2014!
JJ.
