Articles - November, 2021

Lessons Learned from an US Army Trip Gone Sideways Preparing to visit Warsaw, Poland for the first time this week, I of course did some checking on the local strip club scene. Among those early Google results was an April 26, 2021 article from Stars & Stripes newspaper titled “Booze, a strip club and a major gone missing: How a 101st…

The problem isn’t talking to dancers. It’s listening to them. Talking with people is a habit I can’t avoid. Jobs and life have put me in conversation with pretty much any type you can name: the elite intellectual and the unremarkable everyman, the rich and the poor, the beautiful and the hideous. Liar, saint, or psychopath, there aren’t many types I…

I have been going to TJ for about 10 years. I would have never found out about Hong Kong or Adelita and Zona North (North Zone – or the general area where prostitution is legal in Tijuana) if not for TUSCL. For me, the most stressful part of the trip can be entering Mexico and returning to the U.S., so…

I've seen it all. Drugs, Sex, Violence, Heartbreak, Betrayal, Urination, Hand Washing. All of it. Not too too well though, you can only see so much from the crack the bathroom stall door. You could say it was more of a vertical view than a horizontal one. But I was there for there some of the most undeniably sordid events…