As a traveler, my style is usually closer to the backpacking, hitchhiking, finding the closest hostel to the nightlife end of the travel spectrum, a position I always thought was the furthest point possible from the “Cruise” type of traveler. Not to disparage cruises or their customers, but the idea of the cruise evokes in me (and probably other fans of David Foster Wallace) … [Read more...] about Cruisin' the Danube
Austria
Freud’s Vienna
Although Freud and his theories on ego, superego, and id have come under attack in recent years, especially for his attribution of “penis envy” to women, it doesn’t change the fact that Freud is one of the most important thinkers in world history and the father of psychology. In the beautiful city of Vienna, which has lots of spires , towers, and other varieties of phallic … [Read more...] about Freud’s Vienna