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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 [...]

Sleepless in Sicily. Was it the full moon? The Winter Solstice? No, probably the ¾-pound bag of pistachios I munched on all day yesterday. Throughout the last two years of nomad life, pistachios [...]

In Sicily, I’m dreaming of kitchens. Lately, I’ve had very domestic dreams. Things like waking up and making oatmeal pancakes with bananas and toasted walnuts and maple syrup. Yeah, you know you [...]

I feel like I’m “being boring” here in Palermo, and with the recent news that I’ve decided to opt out of being nomadic for a while, I just want to clarify what’s going on. Once again, after [...]

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 [...]

Practically every nomad has their list of gear they won’t leave home without. I never got around to making one, but I guess, after over three years spent travelling to more than 24 countries [...]

The sun beams at me across bleached walls and terracotta tiled roofs of old Palermo, Sicily. I arrived after dark last night, having taken a relaxing afternoon train across the country, my [...]

A nomad friend texted me today. “Will you have another one of those pistachio pizzas before you leave Sofia?” I wrote back, “Kinda I have to, don’t I? What if I never have that topping combo [...]

It breaks my heart to read the news this morning. A family of nine were pulled out of their home by divers after a river burst its banks on the outskirts of Palermo, Sicily, an island of massive [...]

A year ago yesterday, I was in Chiang Mai, Thailand and stoked to attend my first-ever Asian lantern festival. Throughout Asia, from Thailand to Hong Kong to India, lantern festivals are common – [...]