VICE TRAVEL

Death of the American Hobo

The National Hobo Convention Reaches the End of the Line

If highways and roads are America’s veins, the hundreds of thousands of miles of tracks are like those chakra diagrams in acupuncturists’ offices, the hidden flows of energy that affect the body as a whole. Full story

The Raving Outlaw Biker-Druids and Their 1575-Year-Old King

Since the 80s, King Arthur and his biker-druid followers have been protesting in support of the environment, druids' rights, and establishing open access to Stonehenge. These days, you can find him and his partner, the High Priestess, campaigning in the 'henge's parking lot in ho… Full story

Sidemouth

We Can Be Gyros Just for a Day

On last month's equinox I was traveling with a friend of mine through the Aegean Sea. Over the 16-hour boat ride we passed hundreds of small islands on our way to a magical cluster of the Greek Isles called the Kiklades. They are all arid and pseudo desert-like, and every restaur… Full story

Boyle's Brains

Real Pain: Future Dead Friends Tour Live Blog

Jordan Castro asked if I wanted to go on a four-day reading tour with him, Mallory Whitten, Scott McClanahan, Sam Pink, and Mike Bushnell. I said I did. A reading tour is like a music tour but with writers who know each other from the internet instead of musicians who know each o… Full story

That's Why They Call It a Relationshit

Breakups are usually shitty and sad-making, but the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia brings an entirely new perspective to the act of splitting up. After ending a four-year romance in 2003, artists Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić came up with the idea for a museum tha… Full story

Firing Grenades at Somali Pirates Was the Most Fun I've Ever Had

One day we stopped to refuel and one of the guides was like, "OK, let's go shoot an underwater machine gun while we wait." So I was like, "Fuck yeah," obviously. So we did that for a bit, then I went and got my rocket launcher and shot that off the front of the boat, which was co… Full story

I Went to Pattaya for the Sex, I Stayed for the Steroids

Meet Tim "Sharky" Ward, the Australian man who moved to Pattaya, Thailand, and became an internet celebrity earlier this year for taking a bunch of steroids and posting photos of prostitutes on Facebook. Full story

Mass Exorcism in Cairo

The priest slaps the women in the face and spits into their mouths. He even spits in water bottles and gives them out to drink. These women appear relieved by this saliva cocktail. After each of them is cured they are marked by what looks like holy lip-gloss, drawn on their hands… Full story

Adventures in the North Korean Film Industry

Kim Jong-il loved giving white guys a chance on the big screen, as long as they were up for playing the white devil. It was inevitable that someone as fame-hungry as me would travel to the asshole of the earth just to have a crack a the whole "socialist movie star" thing. Full story

Uneven Terrain

Undercity: Las Vegas

Undercity is a team comprised of two guys who enjoy crawling through cities' sewers and assorted shit-covered subterranean locales. We teamed up with director Andrew Wonder and Steve Duncan to create this film about Las Vegas' tunnel system. Full story

Berlin Story: Adieu, Tacheles

This is typical of the strategy used in dealing with squatters: offering a ten or twenty year amnesty period, after which the original occupants have moved on, passing the torch to a younger, more complacent generation, who are easily steam-rolled in the name of progress. Full story

The Amazon Is a Dangerous Place If You Live on a Bunch of Gold

Last week, news broke that back in July illegal goldminers allegedly wiped out an entire village of indigenous Yanomami in the Amazon. Reports suggest that they did this by raining down machine gun fire and crude explosives from helicopters. Full story

The Mall of New Jersey

New Jersey’s landscape has been completely surrendered to the mall. The aggressive classiness of the Mall at Short Hills seems not only inconsistent with New Jersey’s idea of itself, but almost like an affront to it. Full story

Ghosts of the Jungle

Burma's Karen National Liberation Army is the most effective guerrilla fighting force active today. They usually don’t take too kindly to outsiders, especially those with cameras, but somehow I—a curious Canadian photographer—managed to embed with the KNLA’s Special Forces divisi… Full story