I love free plane tickets. They encourage me to spend time in places I wouldn’t make it to so easily otherwise. I don’t love not being able to decide any details about my travel plans though, which was exactly the case with my latest trip to the Middle East. See, I came over with a […]
I don’t think I’ve ever felt so ill-prepared for a trip before! See, tomorrow (Tuesday, December 6) I am leaving on a jet plane on the longest flight I’ve taken since my 3-month Adventures in Asia in 2010. This time I’m off to the Middle East for a 6 week jaunt through Israel and Jordan. […]
It was a divine June day as the cold sea wind shocked some life into me. After all, it was not yet dawn and I was envisioning being in a warm bed, still staring at the inside of my eyelids. But instead, here I was, up at this ungodly hour, making my way to a […]
What does home mean to you? As the old saying says, is it where the “heart” is? What about where you grew up? This is a question that often vexes me. Sure, the above are the easy answers, but none of them fit all that well into my upbringing. Growing up, I never spent more […]
I’ve been a bad blogger… If you read this site regularly, you may have noticed that I haven’t posted in the last month. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed that my tweets have been largely silent. But fear not, it’s not that I’ve given up, I’ve just been busy. Insanely busy, […]
