Prague: A City of Cafes A Cafe culture has taken over beer-swilling Prague. While Czechs still drink more beer per capita than any other nation (on average, 143 liters per year for every citizen including infants and grandmothers), high octane caffeine is planting some serious roots. 5 Continue Reading A New Zealand Love Song 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 this week) barking. It was also a keen reminder that Continue Reading Finding the Local Scene in Buenos Aires Trying to break into the local scene is fairly difficult as a traveler. Where do you start? How do you meet locals if you don't speak the same language? Can you be safe and adventurous at the same time? It’s Continue Reading Armenia: Visiting the Motherland (dictionary.com: motherland (origin: 1705-15): 1. one’s native land. 2. the land of one’s ancestors. 3. a country considered as the origin or source of something.) My mother’s side of the family is 100% Armenian. Both of her parents’ families were from Continue Reading Adelaide, Australia: Exotic animals, extreme sports, and not drinking in wine country Sea Cliff, my beach in Adelaide I felt completely at home in my beach suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, a city of about 1.3M with a similar layout to Philadelphia nestled in Australia’s wine region capital (one Continue Reading Babysitting on Kangaroo Island (and other adventures) Where is Kangaroo Island?
My 2nd Workaway experience was on Kangaroo Island, a remote island in South Australia that few Australians could locate and even fewer have visited. Because of its geographical isolation and expensive ferry, this island with a wild past Continue Reading
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Posts from 1+ Years of Travel
50,000 miles, 23 countries, 5 continents... and almost 2 years later. I've left the corporate world (and the US) to experience life.
We continued through Bosnia from Mostar to Sarajevo, where we’d be spending 3 full days with 2 Remotes who were flying in before heading north to visit my old co-worker’s...
Let’s jump 75 feet from a perfectly stable bridge into 46-degree water below, in mid-November, shall we? My friend Kara and I stopped by Mostar, one of the oldest cities...
We left Sofia, Bulgaria on November 5th and chartered a flight to Split, Croatia. Split is a coastal town, and the 2nd largest city in Croatia. It’s not the cheapest place...
There’s a cottage industry in Sofia, Bulgaria of restaurants located in older houses that have been refurbished. They serve eclectic food and provide a homemade style in everything from the...
I’ve come to the conclusion that each country has its own timing system when it comes to driving. The margin of error in the States may be 3 seconds, and...
I explored the beautiful outskirts of Sofia yesterday (not entirely independent of the parking pressures inside of Sofia. I had a rental car, which I had initially thought was a...
(dictionary.com: motherland (origin: 1705-15): 1. one’s native land. 2. the land of one’s ancestors. 3. a country considered as the origin or source of something.) My mother’s side of the...