Nomad Life: Do I Hate Everywhere?
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 [...]
Midnight in Porto (On New Year’s Eve’s Eve)
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 [...]
Snapshot in Time: Notes from a Plaza in Porto
I’m on the edge of the sketchy part of town, where tourists and the low-income folks intersect, reminding me of Gastown back home in Vancouver. A short bossy man with thick-framed glasses and a [...]
My First Nomadic Christmas
It's the morning of Christmas Eve here in Porto and the sun shines after a dreary, bone-soaking day of rain yesterday. I'm not sure yet what my Christmas holds. I do know I have a lot to figure [...]
A Dream Takes Shape
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 [...]