At this very moment, life couldn’t get much better. I’m sitting on a patio, under shade, sipping coffee, while online writing my blog. It sort of looks like this: I’m not sure the photo does this situation justice, but trust…
Author: Zachary A. Marx
Zachary Marx is currently living and working in Munich, Germany. He graduated with a degree in Political Science in 2006 from the University of Tennessee, and continues to bleed orange. So far, his vagabond lifestyle has brought him to five continents, and twenty-eight countries, with extended stays in China, Japan, and Korea. He started 80couches.com in February of 2011, with the ultimate goal of using it as the premise for couchsurfing around the globe. Your feedback and suggestions are welcome. He can be reached by carrier pigeon, smoke signals, telegram, and via the Interwebs, at zachary.marx@gmail.com.
e-Me
As I was leaving for work the other day it occurred to me that I now leave home with no fewer than three electronic devices, none of which existed at the beginning of my life. For an individual of my…
On Blogging
I had a little extra time at the end of my workday on Monday, and I thought I would change some things around on my blog. I’ve never really been happy with my current template (or “theme” to use the…
Top 5: Favorite Cities
Let me take a crack at this list. My last two “Top 5” lists remain unpublished to my blog because I finished and decided they were, for lack of a better word, dumb. My first attempt was to list off…
When Worlds Collide
When I was in grade school, I remember thinking of my teachers in very two-dimensional terms. Their personalities and the fabric of their existence did not, in my mind, extend beyond school. I only knew them within the confines of…
Couch Season is Open!
During my first 5 months here in Korea, I only hosted one couchsurfer–Mark–and that was nearly accidental. (Several hours of noraebang and copious amounts of alcohol usually necessitate a place to crash). Well, in the last month or so, business…
A Traveler’s Dilemma
I started this website with the intention of doing a copious amount of travel writing. Of course in order to do this, I should, you know, travel. So I’ve been thinking a lot about my upcoming summer vacation (the maligned…
Keep Bangin’ on that Door…
…until I bust it down. I’m in abnormally good spirits for a Monday evening in which I received a job rejection e-mail a scant two hours ago. Perhaps it is the Talking Heads ringing in my earphones, but I actually…
Workshop Blues
I’m sitting here in a convention center somewhere in or near Incheon, on a Saturday, for a mandatory day-long workshop for our parent company, Korea Poly Schools. This workshop is, thus far, proving to be just as boring and unhelpful…
Battle: Los Angeles
For the most part*, I love alien invasion movies. A regular criticism is that they all follow the same plot: Aliens arrive on Earth. We’re not sure whether they are here with peaceful intentions**, or to start blowing shit up.…
Across the Sea
This weekend was, perhaps, the best I’ve experienced thus far in Korea. It was one of those wonderful spring weekends–the first truly warm, sunny weather after months of frigid temperatures. However, I couldn’t shake the horrific imagery from the disaster…
How Do I Say, “Feng Shui” In Korean? Part 2
I feel a bit odd tonight. We were let out an hour early from work because of Ash Wednesday, which is apparently a big deal to some people. So, as I sit in my faux leather arm chair writing at…