We woke in the morning to a layer of frost on our tent and our breath crystallizing past our lips. I had slept like a snug baby underneath the thin…
When we first started planning our move to Nova Scotia, Truro was in our sights as (at least) a first stop. A good central place to base ourselves for house-hunting,…
Last year, I was teased by it. This year, I found myself right in the middle of it. And quite literally, too, the morning that the Girona flower festival was…
The coastal city of Swakopmund sits on a split landscape. To the south, the bright orange dunes of the Namib desert. To the north, the eerie blank canvas of the…
Ready to tackle Namibia’s vast landscapes but feel overwhelmed by the logistics of planning an epic self-drive adventure? You’re not alone. Namibia offers unparalleled freedom and breathtaking scenery, yet its…
We scrambled over loose rocks and up a gentle slope, a chill breeze cut through us despite the hot Moroccan sun cooking from above. Below we saw a fox bounding…
I get this place. Well, as much as anyone can after a brief visit, but there are certain things that only people who come from tiny and remote corners of…
So goes our nomadic lifestyle cycle – travel like mad, settle and work, travel like mad – that after our almost three-week road trip around New Zealand, we found ourselves…
Everyone thinks Tanzania is just the Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater. And that you have to spend a fortune to see anything decent. I hear it all the time. People come…
“There is language going on out there – the language of the wild. Roars, snorts, trumpets, squeals, whoops, and chirps all have meaning derived over eons of expression. We have…