Travel
A warm retreat from the rain: one of the many by-the-slice pizza joints that pepper downtown. Could I really live with the rain? This is a question I’ve been pondering since leaving Vancouver. Every single pair of shoes I brought with was at one time in the last week left to dry on the mat […]
By some unknown force I found myself standing in front of the international travel section in Chapters (the Canadian equivalent to Barnes and Noble). As I stared at the shelves filled with books flaunting various country names on their spines, waves of nostalgia crashed over me, quite unexpectedly I might add. I miss it. Suddenly, […]
I was frustrated because I didn’t know what I wanted. Desire is a funny thing because we don’t necessarily choose to want what it is we want. We just want it, for reasons that are subliminal even to ourselves. Not to say that we can’t change the things we want and learn to like things […]
Free from the confining walls of the drug study facility and alone in my car, I took the opportunity to shriek at the top of my lungs in pure exhilaration at my new found freedom. And then I bee-lined it to Starbucks for that Pumpkin Spice latte I’d been dreaming of for nearly three weeks. […]
Me and my purple Dutch bike Fleur and me outside her and Luiz’s flat I’ve flown around the world. Literally. It’s hard to believe. So far this year… 45,631 miles flown. 14 countries. 22 stops. 40 cities I stayed overnight in. 55 different beds. Longest stay in one place: 13 days in Curitiba, Brazil (besides […]
Market Square in Brugge On the train to Belgium, I noticed that you can choose to sit facing the direction of travel, or looking where the train has just been. This got me thinking: am I a forward- or backward-looking person? Do I spend the majority of my time thinking about the past or looking […]
I’m not one of those people that is on the cutting edge of what’s new and hot in the world. I was never one of the popular kids that everyone wanted to be like. I kinda liked it that way. Who wants all that pressure anyway?! I tend to catch on to things after other […]