Hi and welcome to Kenny Sahr's website, Sahr.com! For many of you, I'm the founder of School Sucks.com. To others, I wrote the travel guide that helped you in Jordan. I'm also a music collector - from classic rock to world music, I can't be without music. I'm lucky to have lived in some amazing cities - Miami, Houston, Ramat Gan, Jerusalem and Eilat. I spent much of my 20's at beaches and participated in a few fun scenes - in the real world and online. I was 24 when I founded School Sucks and I'm 35 now. Keeping School Sucks afloat during the collapse of the Internet Bubble gave me as much experience as did riding the Internet wave in the late 90's.

We live in a Eilat, Israel. Eilat is in Israel's Negev desert and sits on the northern edge of the Red Sea. The lifestyle here is part desert town, part resort town. The beaches and hotels are full of tourists and there's an IMAX, King's City and lots of restaurants. The hot summers, being hours away from any other Israeli city and the breathtaking desert scapes that we see from our home remind us that we're in the middle of the desert. We're a walk from the beach and a walk to the hills and mountains. I spent the first 32 years of my life in the city and suburbs. Since 2003, we live in the Negev. This is the Israel I looked for - small communities, quality of life and a place that seems to need and appreciate young couples.

My first online experience was in '83 with an Atari 1200 XL, a tape drive and a 300 baud modem! The modem was used to call BBS's (Bulletin Board Systems), a precursor to the Internet. There were discussion boards, games, downloads, email messages and more. I knew then that what I was seeing and doing in the BBS world was important. That BBS that I had as a kid evolved into School Sucks a decade later.

Today, its as cool as ever with Voice Over IP, webcams, and incredible video games. I spent much of 2006 researching and planning a long trip. Every youth hostel in the world has a website. It was so much fun checking them out - seeing photos and sometimes videoclips! I found budget vacation rentals in the Caribbean that I never dreamed existed. Internet forums also helped - you ask for travel suggestions on Lonely Planet's forums and within minutes start to see replies. That didn't stop me from buying a few Lonely Planet books - without them, I wouldn't have known where to start. Backpackers and travelers never had it so good! See you in 2007!


November 2007 - We're finally home after over 9 months on the road! What an amazing time we had!! Miami, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Jamaica, Washington DC and New York City. We spent six and a half months in South America, over two months in Jamaica and a week in the USA. Backpacking was so much fun. We met so many people along the way and tasted so much culture. And did a lot of walking! And then there's Hurricane Dean in Jamaica back in August..

I appreciate that we were able to go on such a long trip in our 30's. We're both slowly getting ourselves back into things here - we were so tired the first week home. It took two weeks catch up on sleep and let our leg muscles rest. We did 10 hour days in Washington DC and New York City - a lot of walking.

It'll take some time to put all of the photos online but here is a collection of QuickTime VR photos. Give that page some time to load - lots to see..

I missed being home. But I miss backpacking - being in a new place every few days to week, tasting new foods and especially drinking coconut water and eating the jelly every morning in Oracabessa, Jamaica!

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Globalization is the only way forward / Y2K blues / So you wanna move to the Negev?



We're more moderate than you think! / Good journalism doesn't mean a cynical worldview



Video didn't kill the radio star! / Designer organs and excess / Cloning and longevity / Thoughts on space / Search engine submission software reviews and tips



The future of music / What are bootlegs? / Bob Dylan's second greatest contribution to music

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