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This is a "Steller Story." The site allows for creating interesting "book" style stories laden with photos and videos. I think it's a brilliant way for me to add to my little storytelling routine [...]

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 [...]

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 midnight in Porto and I’ve just finished watching Midnight In Paris, in which “screenwriter” Owen Wilson finds himself in Paris with his fiancée and somehow time-travels back to 1920s Paris [...]

It’s my last day in Lisbon and the prospect of packing for Porto begins tonight. For some reason I’ve woken today with a weather migraine and healthy dose of regret. I feel like I somehow [...]

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 [...]

The air is cool and rain is moving in off the Adriatic soon. I can feel it in my fingers as I type. I said my goodbyes to Zagreb. We were not made for each other, thanks to a rocky start, but it [...]

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 [...]

As I write, a wind blasts heavy rain diagonally here in Zagreb, which will be my home for 21 more days. I arrived yesterday. As far as Croatia goes, this is the city most people visit for only 48 [...]

There is a lot to do when one is doing away with their whole life so they can travel the world for five years. I’ve been very, very tied up and, for a while there, had been deluding myself that [...]