The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Good trip: a sign from San Francisco

This is the sign behind the bar at the Anchor Steam brewery, where I took a tour the other day. I spent six days in the Big Bay City where I ate oysters, breathed fog, watched tourists, dodged junkies, and saw a whole lot of family (this was wedding travel). I scored a Mexican lucha libre mask and played guitar aboard El Volado, the Mexican party bus. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
I don’t think I’ll quit my day job, but it was a good run while it lasted. I wonder what my lucha libre name should be (comment below with suggestions). Anyway, the travel lesson here is “always try to fit in with the locals.”

During the six days I was in San Francisco, the sun shone for a total of 17 minutes. This is one of them:

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I don’t know what it is, but those masks freak me out. They’re a little Hannibal Lecter-ish.
That’s an awesome beer sign though.