Once Upon A Cruise

The Budget Travel Olympian The Budget Travel Olympian No matter how low the budget bar gets, I always manage to limbo my way under it. I'm the Wilt Chamberlain of shoestring travel—putting up numbers so unthinkable that mere normals will never, ever reach them: **300 ports in 38 months.** As the Morgan Freeman of travel writers, everyone recognizes me but I never gain any due recognition. **Hotel @nyware** ( edreif.com ) hasn't exactly been the Edgar Allen Poe of knock-outs, the Emily Dickinson of ground and pound, the Robert Frost of woopings. So I shoot pictures and videos and post them for the auditory and visual crowd—I call it CNN versus the alphabet. The In to My Sane It's just me, born with a Ph.D. in throwing junk up against the wall and seeing what will stick. Looking back, it's been the Colonel Kurtz of experiences. I've gone native and insane so many times...