“Where is your favourite place in the world?” I often get asked this question and find it increasingly difficult to answer because there are so many places I hold dear to my heart, and have very fond memories of. Ultimately, I choose the two places…
On the 19th day of every month I like to give myself a little pat on the back because its my travelversary; the anniversary of the first time I left home and means I have spent another month on the road. Today is that little…
When you travel for a long period of time, you inevitably miss out on celebrating events and milestones with family and friends. It’s a bit of an opportunity-cost situation where you get to see the world, but you miss out on being there for a…
After leaving Colombia, and South America for the second time on this round-the-world trip, I again headed for the United States, but the west coast on this occasion. Victoria and I were headed for Los Angeles and to the wedding of one of her friends,…
The further north I went in South America the more talk I heard about Colombia. Nobody had a bad word to say about the country that has a reputation for being extremely dangerous and fuelled by cocaine. To be honest, I didn’t know too much…
Baños is a small town renowned as the adventure capital of Ecuador and a must-see on the so-called Gringo Trail in South America. It was my fourth stop in Ecuador and after taking a watchful bus ride from Quito (the Quito-Baños route is the most…
