Planning

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 [...]

I’ve tried writing a few times about the personal nature of travel, but I always let it go, because it feels like I’m shutting down discussion on places I visit. That’s not necessarily my aim. [...]

I live and die by AirBNB reviews. Hands down, no argument, no discussion: Without AirBNB, I could not live the nomad life. Full stop. But it took ages to learn to read reviews carefully, to read [...]

Would you like to travel more mindfully so exotic lands and otherworldly experiences still feel real years later? Join me for my “Creative Travel Workshop” in Fez, Morocco, and learn [...]

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 [...]

Some will tell you that common sense is now so uncommon that it is rare sense. Nowhere does this seem more true than in airport security checkpoints. It’s no secret, okay? There’s an [...]

I sat on many blog posts this past year, knowing a new blog theme would come, and this is one of those — the unexpected perks of off-season travel. I wrote this in early December, [...]

Travel is a learning curve. It’s different for all of us. We learn what we can do, what’s adaptable, what’s intolerable, and what we crave. It takes time for these things to become evident [...]

Last night I walked down the Royal Mile and heard bagpipes in the distance, and as I approached the player, he began Braveheart's famous heart-wrenching funeral song.

AirBNB changed the travel game. It’s an in-between option people like me who can’t shell out for a hotel, or need more than budget hotels offer, but also don’t dig hostelling anymore. When I [...]