Don’t ask why, but I’ve been keeping a list of all the places I’ve slept. Strangely it’s one of the more accurate loggings I have. It’s been over a year and half at this point and I’ve recently hit over 100 different homes. Ha. That’s something like an average of…
The Nomadic Life Posts
Ok. So, before I get into my experiences and the things I’ve seen and contemplated, let me first provide a bit of background. This is a travel blog. Sure you’ll find plenty of op-ed style writing and some stats here and there but at the end of the day, this…
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…
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…
Crossing the border into Chile from Bolivia is to go from one extreme to another, from possibly the continent’s poorest country to its richest. It won’t hit you for the first half hour if you’re coming across at the Uyuni/San Pedro border, as you’re still in “wilderness” for the first…
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…
If you’ve ever wanted to see the old South America, the South America in 80s hollywood movies, the South America from the classic photos we’ve all seen, the chicken bus South America, then Bolivia is your best bet. For the record, chicken buses even here are on their way out,…
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,…
Bolivia was undoubtedly the cheapest country I had been in in South America. Unfortunately the expenses below don’t reflect that but there were extenuating circumstances. Staying at a party hostel was a necessity. I needed the diversion and a place to recharge and connect with people. I also stayed in…
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…
There are few places in the world I believe, that can offer the vast variety of landscapes and activities as Peru. It’s a special country, made all the more special by the intrigue and mystery of the Inca and their incredible accomplishments and productions. The remains of their culture as…
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 had no intention or expectations of spending so much time in Peru. To be honest, Peru never really held all that much intrigue for me. Sure there’s Macchu Pichu and while working with Peru Hop on their old site, I learned about the desert in Ica, and a couple…
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…
It’s officially been over a year and a half since I left home and embarked on this new path. Looking back on where I started in terms of the things I purchased and brought with me, it’s surprising how little has changed. Seems most of my decisions back then were…