The Art of Stopping: Even Nomads Need a Home
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
A reader wrote a comment worth addressing. They said: “Sorry if this is rude but it seems to me you don’t like anywhere you ARE but dream of how it’s going to be great in the NEXT place. It’s [...]
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 [...]
They’ll tell you that you can’t go home again. You’re changed, home’s changed, everything changes. That’s right about a lot of things. But today I’ve found a safe place, a place where time and [...]
There is more to say about the Azores and it’ll be said when I’m fit to say it. Some things need simmering, like old world stews. The Azores are like that for me. A place caught between both the [...]
In a packed diner in Madrid, I sat at the counter for weekend brunch, secretly grateful for the small-talk I knew I’d get with the barkeep as I nibbled my tasty eats. As inevitably happens, he [...]