I'm just a guy from rural Ontario who quickly figured out that sitting at a desk wasn't going to cut it. So I packed a bag, maxed out the optimism, and decided to see exactly how far off the map I could get before things went totally sideways.

From homemade rat liquor in rural Laos to the deepest slums of Manila, the running theory is that people are a product of their environment — and most of those environments are significantly more hospitable than the evening news would have you believe. Even when they're trying to feed you something named Jerry.

Glory to the algorithm.