Travel Memoir: The People You Meet

July 3, 2025.Reading time 3 minutes.

In 2010, at the age of 35, I had the opportunity to leave my life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada behind for a few months to travel around Southeast Asia and China with my British boyfriend. Thanks to his work in the luxury travel industry, the trip was to be part budget/backpacker and part luxury with […]

Discovering Soul Mates – Travel’s Biggest Gift

July 29, 2022.Reading time 5 minutes.

Discovering Soul Mates – Travel’s Biggest Gift When I was in grade 11, I went on exchange to Namur, Belgium for a few months. Namur is a French speaking city of approximately 110,00 and is the capital of Belgium’s Wallonia region. This didn’t mean a lot to me when I was in grade 11, but […]

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts

July 7, 2022.Reading time 10 minutes.

Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, by Suzanne Roberts Day one and hiker Suzanne Roberts was already lying in her journal. Sign me up. I am very drawn to true stories about women who take on multi-day through-hikes, be it as a solo adventure or with other females in tow. Perhaps this […]

Cycling the Horsey Hundred, in Georgetown, Kentucky!

June 7, 2022.Reading time 11 minutes.

Woman on bike cycling alone through two beautiful green trees on paved road countryside.

Cycling the Horsey Hundred, in Georgetown, Kentucky! I am the type of person who feels pulled to the next adventure purely by instinct. Not a lot of thought goes into it, and on more than one occasion, I have known very little about the place I was going next. I just knew I was supposed […]

Adventures

August 27, 2019.Reading time 8 minutes.

A woman stands off to the right hand side of the picture. Her back is to the camera. She is wearing a long white sleeved shirt and a white bucket hat. She is looking out toward numerous snow capped mountain peaks. This is the Alps.

Adventures of the Heart and Soul We commonly travel for the destination. A place suddenly intrigues us, or has intrigued us for many years. We may not know why, but we know that we must go there. This can feel very urgent, or it can be a slow burn that keeps growing until we buy […]