“You should try ‘Goat Yoga’ while you’re here,” a friend suggested.  I was in Austin, Texas for the 4th of July week dog sitting a golden retriever and visiting fellow...

I met up with an old college friend this morning on a stopover in San Francisco.  Our rendezvous flew by as we both tried to fill each other in on...

Yin and Yang The iconic Bondi Iceberg Club is an ultra white 4-story rectangular building built into the cliffs of Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.  Light blue ocean waves pound...

On a very narrow hiking trail overlooking Turnagain Arm, arguably the most scenic highway in the US (a stretch of road from Anchorage towards the Kenai Peninsula), I met a guy named...

Life in the Arctic Adrenaline floods your body as you throw back the blankets of animal furs and climb into the cold air.  It’s 3am.  The sounds of drumbeats and...

Summer in Alaska? A house sitter opportunity titled ‘Summer in Alaska?‘ caught my eye.  Is that a rhetorical question?  I applied and was accepted, securing a trip to Alaska after...

The nighttime howl of a hound dog kept me awake last night.  It pulled at my heart strings and sent my own dogs (Chewie and Rula, my house sitting mates...

A few weeks ago at the Nelson airport, something strange happened… and by strange, I mean amazing.  When checking in for my flight, I wasn’t asked for a ticket or...

I was nervous about my trip to Christchurch, New Zealand.  The more people I talked to, the more I regretted having booked a 10-day house sit there.  “There’s not much...

It had just rained torrentially for 5 days straight in Cairns, Australia.  Even for a rainforest’s standards, the volume was record-breaking.  The Cairns Community Facebook Page was overloaded with locals...