I love mountains and hiking. I feel cradled by the mountains and love the inner and outer journey that pushing onward to the summit of a mountain (and making it back down again safely) reveals. It’s about so much more than just physical abilities; there’s an exploration of stamina and courage, and sharing the joy [...]
While planning a full escape from her corporate-tour-of-duty, Jeannie Mark’s job suddenly quit her. In June 2010, she set off to explore the world, find stories and grow exponentially. She recently spent three months volunteering at a small village in India with Child Haven, a home for abandoned or orphaned children. Please enjoy this week-in-the-life [...]
This is the story of how a little girl who sang into her pillow growing up is learning to sing to the world. (Or maybe just a bigger pillow). Both of my parents are musicians. Growing up, we lived in a two-bedroom apartment with two pianos; often one parent would teach a student in the [...]
I’m in the throes of booking the next stage of my travels, which will include spending the summer in my home town of Toronto, Canada. In taking your travel/layover suggestions into account, I’m now up to my eyeballs in frequent flyer miles and strategies to see what’s possible. Here’s some pathetic irony for you: for [...]
With 16,000kms of Australia’s rail lines under my (slightly maniacal) rail-enthusiastic belt, I recently conquered the formidable train infrastructure on New Zealand’s Coromandel peninsula: all 2.6kms of it. But this 2.6km train journey has a story all its own; one of art, conservation, and engineering.
Three years ago, Vesna and Mike started assessing their lives – including the hours they weren’t spending on their passions – and determining what truly matters. After a trip to visit family in Europe and living minimally for three weeks, they came home to a mortgage and a load of Muda (Japanese for “waste”): a [...]
I have a request, dear readers, and I need your help! My New Zealand visa expires on June 1st, and it is my plan to leave the country sometime in the week prior, as I have commitments that take me up to May 22nd. I also plan to spend a few months this summer in [...]
Just as time passes more and more quickly as we age, so too I’m finding that time passes increasingly quickly as my travel days accumulate. It feels like eons ago that I sold my financial planning practice and everything I owned to travel the world. Back then I had no idea where my traveling would [...]
