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A year ago, I was reeling. Chiang Mai, Thailand. Gordon Downie Jr had just died the night before, a legendary Canadian singer, frontman to The Tragically Hip. I was in the throes of jet lag, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Two weeks from this moment, I will be flying somewhere over the continental USA en route home. It’s not my first time going home since my travels began, but it’s the first time that it matters. [...]

Somehow, weeks have passed since I fled Guanajuato for San Miguel de Allende, and I have neglected to share all that with you. Bad nomad. Yes, spiralling into the reality that I’m depressed has [...]

It’s sunny, nearly 20 degrees. It’s a cloudless day and I’m hiding under what I call The Broccoli Trees. They’re the “stone pine,” and look like a single stalk of broccoli. They were everywhere [...]

101 days and counting without my "winter" coat as I travel the world. January 18th. Can Parcelforce get it to me before I get a sunburn? I doubt it.

Even when I was planning for this life, I couldn’t have imagined what it would be like, because I simply hadn’t travelled. I didn’t travel, not like this, not ever. You can’t compare a weekend [...]

There’s a time when I know I just need to stop and write. It’s when I’ve updated Instagram and Twitter and Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Facebook and… Yeah, okay, there’s a blog post [...]

Well, folks, three weeks from today the heavy-lifting of prep work will finally be all over and I can say goodbye and thanks to people for a week, and then it’s off to live the life of my [...]