So, 2021 has been a challenge. I can’t deny that fact. It’s not that there’s been any specific roadblock sent my way. It’s not that at all. If anything, 2021 has shown me more than ever how much I get in my own way. And in a sense that’s been…
Category: soul
A bit about me, where I’ve come from and how I got here.
Let me take the opportunity now, in this moment because moments are fleeting and things never stay the same. I’m overflowing with love. Love for myself, for the people in my orbit, in my life; those who have stood by me, even those who haven’t. I have noticed that sharing…
Hey dude. So, you survived 2020. First post of 2021. Not gonna stay long cause I’m a bit tired and not entirely inspired to write but I wanted to mark the change of the year and put down a few markers. On my journey to try to become a bit…
Me again. Trying to make this another one of my new habits. I’ve created a bunch of new habits lately and I figure this is another that might benefit me. An old friend I haven’t really been in touch with in a long time up until recently. Truth is, I’m…
I tend to be pretty hard on myself. I generally undervalue progress I make or achievements that I reach. I’m not entirely sure where that comes from. Definitely some of that can be attributed to my family, and most certainly my father, but I think part of it was also…
Well, here we go again. It’s been three years since my last confession. But more and more lately, I’ve been feeling like it’s time I start sharing some thoughts again. But this time, things are a bit different. When I first started this blog, it felt like the right thing…
I have the place to myself. I’m still not used to relying on the generosity of friends. It’s foreign and uncomfortable but I’m really grateful to the friends I have who have opened their lives and homes to me. It’s not sustainable nor do I want it to be but…
Yes, it’s been a long time. In fact the longest time since I started this blog that I haven’t poured e-ink onto these pages. It’s been nagging at me, but the truth is, I simply haven’t been inspired enough to make the effort that now seems more like a responsibility than…
I’ve always appreciated beautiful photography and down deep I’ve always wished I had some talent for it. I can’t say that I do, but I can say that over the past year I’ve been making more of an effort and made some investments in order to have better tools with…
I do enjoy taking pictures, but I’m not yet great at it and it’s still not something I think of doing when I’m with people. 90% of the photos I take are of things, places, and people I don’t know. But when I’m with people, I basically never think of…
The next few months are going to be rough. I can feel it already. Only one week into my new environment and I can feel the weight of it on my shoulders, tugging at the pits of my stomach, squeezing my heart and filling my mind with doubts. I have…
Here it is. I’m at the precipice of my first pause in this great adventure of mine, looking into a life very different from this one but also quite the same. It’s time to change my priorities. Life on the road has its many benefits but it also has its…
When you’re away for more than a few months you start to miss things, but I think it takes many more months before you start to really appreciate those things that you really feel are missing in your life. For every individual, those things are going to be different, and…
From the outside I think most people would consider me to be a strong person. If there’s one thing I think I’ve succeeded at throughout my life it’s the ability to project a certain image and have people believe it. Don’t get me wrong it’s an image that I wanted…
2015 started with a party, followed by a bit of traveling with V to the blue seas of the Caribbean. A few months later I was off to start this life of mine. 2015 was a year of adventure and the discovery of a new and wondrous world. It was…
Every once in a while, a series of mistakes forces the universe to slap you awake and places a mirror in front of you so you can see who you truly are. It’s up to you to accept that and do something about it or ignore it and continue along…
Since January I’ve been asking myself a particular question on a regular basis. I’m not constantly thinking about it but whatever is just lower than constantly would be the word to use as concerns the consistency with which I’ve been asking this question. It’s a question that arose out of…
It almost never fails. There have been a few exceptions and when you’re low, you’re low, and in those moments I haven’t felt this but those moments have been few and far between. Aside from those, the vast majority have been something almost indescribable. I’m taking about my bus love,…
A few months ago, someone sent me a link to a blog post. It was a guy sitting much like I did there, surrounded by his 101 possessions. He had changed his life, and went minimal, traveling the world with everything he owns on his back. As you can imagine,…
I spent the past 4 weeks staying at a party hostel. I needed it. I needed the social contact, a temporary home where I had people I knew to say goodnight to and people I knew to say hi to in the mornings. I don’t know how well I would…
This post may be a bit dark, and it’s fine if you think it is, but I hope you can appreciate that these are just thoughts and observations that I need, or in this case want, to put out there because they make up a part of my travels and…
I saw that quote somewhere towards the beginning of my journey. It touched me but I wasn’t sure why nor what it truly meant. I’m not sure I do now either but it has meaning now that it didn’t before. We all live our lives with dreams. Some we know…
Working nomadically while traveling seems like such a beautiful thing. Ya, ok, it can be. But like everything in life, it can have a shelf-life. Give it enough time and your perspectives on it start to change. Of course, there are tons of considerations: whether you have a home to…
So, full disclosure, the truth is I’m rather uncomfortable having a blog. Don’t get me wrong, I need it. I need the outlet. I need a way to process my thoughts and feelings. I need a way to put down my observations and experiences, I need a supplement to my…
The soundtrack to my year. A month back, on the 10th of April, I lived a new milestone. Unceremoniously I sat on a sand dune overlooking an oasis in the desert of Peru, ushered in the beginning of my second year as a homeless nomadic soul and closed out my…
No time is the depth of my solitude felt more deeply and with more resonance than on my extensive bus journeys throughout the many landscapes of the world. In those moments, during the interminable hours catapulting across a country where trees are dots and homes are dashes of a Morse…
When I first started this blog I wasn’t really sure what purpose it was going to serve. It just felt like something natural to want to have while traveling and I knew I’d want an outlet and a motivation to write down some thoughts. But originally I wanted to provide…
What the heck is a digital backpacker? By now, many of us have heard of Digital Nomads. It’s a term that’s been growing in use over the past few years. It’s been crawling its way into mainstream speak for a while, but hasn’t quite hit the ears of the majority…
I started this journey 10 months ago today. I guess this post is both a celebration of 10 months and a recognition of what I’ve left behind. The path I’ve taken may not always have been clear, and I won’t pretend it is now either, but I have learned a…