New Year Reflections from A Nomad in Sicily
It’s New Year’s Day and the firecrackers have fallen silent. For nearly 12 hours yesterday, it was an explosive experience here in Palermo, Sicily. Some firecrackers were as loud as bombs, set [...]
It’s New Year’s Day and the firecrackers have fallen silent. For nearly 12 hours yesterday, it was an explosive experience here in Palermo, Sicily. Some firecrackers were as loud as bombs, set [...]
Being a nomad is a constant judgement call. Every day, choices are made on which I have not nearly enough information. Is this bakery better than that? What toilet paper should I get? This yogurt [...]
A couple weeks ago, I saw a Humans of New York post on Facebook, and posted a comment encouraging the traveller to consider Workaway.info for free boarding while travelling. Shortly after, some [...]
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. [...]
I’m down to my final 50 hours in Vancouver and then I leave on yet another jetplane, taking me to Oaxaca, Mexico, which I believe to my core will be a huge turning point in my travels, my life, [...]
I've been having a lot of emotional ups and downs lately due to money, weather, realities, and it's given me a lot to think about. Do I want to continue this life? You're bloody right I do. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The other day, I grumbled on my Facebook page (where I have become a chronicling fiend for my travels) about how I went to a hotel restaurant called "The American Grill" when I heard they had a [...]
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 [...]