Challenges

I feel like I’m “being boring” here in Palermo, and with the recent news that I’ve decided to opt out of being nomadic for a while, I just want to clarify what’s going on. Once again, after [...]

So, I had an epiphany today. Lightbulb, Oprah singing, nerves zapping kinda “a-ha!” epiphany. See, I’ve been so consumed, almost vexed, as I deliberate about Where To Next. I don’t mean where to [...]

By this time tomorrow, a hysterectomy will have removed my uterus in a country that, just 27 years ago, was more isolated and insular than North Korea is today. I’m in Albania and doctors [...]

Yesterday was one of those strange days in the life of I, Nomad, embracing resourcefulness. Back home, in Canada, it was so easy to just go “Oh, X isn’t working right. I guess I’ll order a new [...]

It’s nearly four weeks to the day I awoke within a few minutes of a Facebook message saying the end seemed nigh for my dad. Within an hour, he was dead. Enter the mourning period. A complicated [...]

Autumn is here. For me, death and autumn are like chocolate and peanut butter, they go hand-in-hand. Only I don’t crave death. No one actually wants to see death and autumn up close. [...]

Long-term travel is a challenge for anyone, no matter how right the decision is for them. Being homesick isn’t a sign of failure or not being cut out for a travel life, it just shows you’re [...]

More from my backlog, this was written June 23rd, 2016, in the days following the massacre in Orlando, the uprising in Oaxaca, the execution of Jo Cox, and other events that comprised the [...]

Travel is a kaleidoscope of colour and chaos. It’s adventure and adversity mixed with awe-inspiring and soul-crushing moments. It’s a whirlwind that catches us in the eye of a storm, and it’s [...]

Travel, oof. Some days, man. It's one of those days when it's critical to remember how powerless we are when crap goes sideways. Bend like the willow, bend and don’t break. I’ve travelled [...]