Will the insanity never end? — This morning an article in Rolling Stone Magazine, Will an Oil Racket Destroy One of Africa’s Most Sacred Places?, crossed my feed. It immediately caught my eye because it was written about an issue that has caused me great sorrow. In 2021 my partner and I housesat in Maun, Botswana…

It’s simply a moral decision. — About 10 years ago, a friend in Canada suggested I should check out Airbnb after he and his wife spent a couple of weeks traveling around Europe while using the platform. “We stayed with some lovely hosts,” he said, “and the prices were much more affordable than hotels.” Immediately, I…

If only we decide to look in the right direction. — Many of you may have heard of the sargassum seaweed that is making its way through the Caribbean and all the way up to Florida. Some are calling it a ‘blob’. In fact, CNN claims that the ‘blob’ is twice the width of the US. Talk about a dramatic headline! …

And I still feel like I am just getting started. — Recently Linda Ng posted her story I Travelled To 22 Countries In The Last 15 Years. She found this website which allows users to click on the countries that they have been to, and it generates the image above that gives a person a visual layout of their travels. Adrienne…

My Weeks in Photos — Week 62 & 63 — May 12 — May 31, 2023 — When I went to look for my last weekly wrap-up to see where I left off, I was surprised to find that I haven’t written one in a couple of weeks. I won’t lie, I have felt little desire to write much in the past 8 weeks. It all shifted…

How often does a bus leave 25 minutes before its scheduled departure? — Because we only had a limited amount of cash at this point, we didn’t fancy spending all of it on a hotel night in Frankfurt. In fact, we didn’t even know if we even had enough for a night in Frankfurt. My prior research had shown me that hotels and…

And I’m sure there are many more than we know. — When I wrote my article about the off-the-beaten-track ruins that we found in Africa earlier this month, I had every intention of also writing about the ruins we have seen in both Europe and Central America. …

One missed bus, a bus that left 25 minutes early without us, and a debit card that wouldn’t work. — We had just spent the previous three years living in Africa and Eastern Europe. Much of Africa doesn’t operate on schedules or timelines. Africans move forward gracefully and take each moment as it comes, not fast and hurried as our culture does. Eastern Europe is different also. While they do…

My Weeks in Photos — Week 61 — May 11— May 17, 2023 — It’s kind of interesting because I have been feeling the need to write an article about how unfocused I have felt since arriving back in Canada. I don’t know if it is the sheer amount of distractions that exist in this society, or if it is just my tired brain…