Well. It’s been a while, eh? My last post was on January 8th, 2020 and it feels I’ve lived a thousand lives since then. Or at least some metric of time that’s WAY longer than 12 months. Life Update Back in January 2020 I was only partially employed (working part-time at the restaurant I worked […]

No sé si cada vez me esfuerzo menos por equilibrar la selección o es que mis intereses se van depurando con los años. Sea como fuere, insisto en que este listado anual no pretende seleccionar los mejores libros entre todos, sino acaso rescatar del olvido o desconocimiento un haz de textos hermanados por la historia […]

Another year, another book list! Where are my fellow bookworms?! Continuing the trend from previous years, I found myself reading more and more non-fiction books. I even added in a few short-stories and books of poems to mix things up a bit. Thanks to a bit of travel burnout in the spring, a summer spent […]

Well, here we are again. Not only the end of a year, but the end of a decade. This past year was a bit of a whirlwind. There was plenty of international travel as we bounced around Morocco and Europe, and even a bit of domestic travel as we explored Canada’s east coast for the […]

One of the last areas we explored during our road trip through the Maritime provinces was the around the Fundy Coast. The Bay of Fundy is most widely known for its massive tidal swings and stunning cliffs and rock formations. We started our journey around the Fundy Coast on the often overlooked Nova Scotia side. […]

After our tour down the eastern and southern shores of Nova Scotia, we headed inland and across the province to its northern shores. We stopped for a brief canoe trip in one of Nova Scotia’s famed National Parks, then proceeded north and west towards the coast. We stopped at a former Navy base trying to […]

After our incredible tour of Cape Breton, we continued our road trip along Nova Scotia’s Eastern and Southern shores. Those directions may seem confusing, especially given how mainland Nova Scotia follows the SW-NE axis, but a look at any tourist map will quickly make sense of it all. The Eastern shore is to the east […]

Mac and I have done a lot of hiking during our travels. There are certain hikes that stick out in my mind as clear favourites (Papa Stour and Mt Toubkal first come to mind), but our hike to Pollet’s Cove easily slides into position of one of my top 5 favourite day hikes. This magical […]

Welcome to Part Two of my recap of our week spent driving around PEI. After getting our fill of lighthouses on the west side of the island, we headed to the east side of PEI where we encountered more red beaches and even more lighthouses!! The East Side of PEI Greenwich – Prince Edward Island […]

Cambellton, New Brunswick As I mentioned in my last post, New Brunswick is often called the “drive through province”. As in, there’s not much to do there except drive through it to get to somewhere else. Well Mac and I were determined to not fall into that category. As soon as we crossed the J.C. […]

Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec Given how amazing our first adventures were in Gaspe National Park, Mac and I couldn’t wait to see what we’d find at the end of Gaspe. Our first few days of our East Coast road trip were spent following the 132 highway as it snaked along the shores of the St Lawrence. […]

Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec After wandering the streets of Quebec City, we continued along the south shore of the St Lawrence towards the middle of the Gaspe Peninsula. This spit of land is roughly the size of Belgium and gets is name from the Mi’kmaq word gespe’g – meaning end, as in, the end of the […]

Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario Sitting here at the dining table with a comfortable chair beneath me, muscles fully relaxed, and zero bugs buzzing around my head makes our one week on the La Cloche Silhouette Trail seem like so long ago. In late June, Mac and I decided to head north to Killarney Provincial Park […]

One Year of Travel | A Summary Mac and I were abroad for one year and four days. We were mainly in Europe with a winter-long layover in southern Spain and Morocco. On this trip we embraced a “sharing economy” – CouchSurfing and hitchhiking (and later, House Sitting) as much as we could. Through these […]

Zadar, Croatia Before we knew it, the month of May had arrived and Mac and I found ourselves nearing the end of our year-long trip. Unbeknownst to my family, we had booked a flight from Zadar, Croatia to Dublin, Ireland after which we would catch another flight direct to southwest Ontario. We were going home. […]

Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina After Sarajevo, we continued our journey through the Balkans by visiting the old town of Mostar. We opted to take a bus (rather than hitchhiking), and the views we saw as we snaked through the mountains were just incredible. The landscapes of the Bosnian countryside were so stunning – full of […]

Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina While Mac and I did enjoy our time checking out the sights of Sarajevo, we’re hikers at heart and it didn’t take us long before we started getting itchy feet! I was stoked to find 2 great day hikes in Sarajevo and at the first sign of a sunshine-filled day, Mac […]

I’m back catching up on the last of our European travels through the Balkans! Thanks for all the love on my last post about what it’s like to date a Raptors fan. It was fun jumping into present day on the blog, but I’ve only got a few posts left from our trip! Thanks for […]

It’s April in Colombia. We’re in a small town near the Ecuadorian border called Mocoa. Yesterday between the rainstorms we were entertained by the small monkeys at our hostel. They leapt from branch to branch mere meters from where we stood. Today was almost equally as relaxing, save for a bit of stress that loomed […]

Belgrade, Serbia Our time in Belgrade was certainly eye-opening. From the hustle bustle of the capital city, to the signs and billboards written in Cyrillic, there was so much to take in, and so much to learn. While we did do quite a few of the typical “touristy” things, we also saw ourselves getting political […]