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I began writing about Motovun and Istria two months ago. I kept coming back to this, picking at it, or reading it and trying to find the right mood so I could wrangle the right words. Never have [...]

Globalization. There’s a term I’ve heard for the last couple decades of my life, maybe longer. I always knew what it meant, but not until I myself became global did I start really understanding [...]

It’s the third morning of my Portugal leg of my adventure. Up the hill, someone is burning waste from land-clearing arundo donax, an invasive reed that’s a cross between corn and bamboo, which [...]

It’s day six in Zagreb, and all of them have been filled with four things -- sickness, fatigue, rain, and wine. And some photography, some of which I'll share here, but more of which you could [...]

My money’s down and my mind’s made up. Deciding on where to go has been arduous because I want to See All The Places as I travel the world for five years. But my travels are completely different [...]

I just choked up watching Anthony Bourdain eating in the Lyon episode of Parts Unknown. Wow, man. I’ve got this Europe bug bad. For the last three years since I moved to Victoria, I’ve worked [...]

My “aunt” asked me the other night why I was starting my travels in Croatia. I'd like to say I’m inspired by the country and stuff like that, but the reality is one day it occurred to me. I'd [...]

One day, I realized I could work from anywhere. So why not work from everywhere? By selling pretty much 80% of what I own and creatively storing the rest, I will set out on my audacious plan [...]