Petra is one of those places that either elicits a blank stare or complete excitement when I tell people I want to come here. So I learned from my young cousin to explain to the former in this way: Have you ever seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? Well, Petra is the real place…
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Life, Love, Travel and the Pursuit of Celebrating Canada’s Birthday
Did you know that 2017 will mark the big 1-5-0 for Canada? And in true Canadian fashion, “Canada’s gift to you, the 2017 Discovery Pass will provide free admission for the entire year to Parks Canada places from coast-to-coast to coast!” Yes so click here for your Free 2017 Parks Canada Discovery Pass! This is…
Life, Love, Travel, and My Wish For You
I have been so lucky in my life, really so often I think probably luckier than I have any right to be. So in this holiday season, it seems right that what I want is actually for you:
10 Money Tips to Help You Travel Better (and Cheaper)
Obviously I saved money but that was only part of how I was able to travel for so long and to so many places. These are tips that I personally used/did and are geared towards how to best maximize your money for travel: from how to save $ to how not to spend any money…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Being Alive: Part One (Amman, Madaba, Mount Nebo, the Dead Sea, Petra, Wadi Rum, Aqaba, Jordan)
In Jordan, I see countless stars filling up all the night sky, structures and monuments created thousands of years ago, ancient and modern history and civilizations, and I realize that I am but a tiny creature on one small planet in this vast universe occupying but a blip in time. But I do not feel…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of the Last, Best Hope
My last post was about why travel matters, so this post is dedicated to why home, specifically the US, matters. Somewhere along my travels, I started to develop a deep love and appreciation for the states. Maybe it’s because I spent so much time talking to people everywhere in the world about this country, our…
Life, Love & the Pursuit of Why Travel Matters
It’s simple: travel is necessary. Take a trip and let it inspire you. Or awe you. Or change you fundamentally. Or go away to lose yourself. Or maybe to find/redefine yourself. Or to learn your strengths and/or weaknesses. Or to have beliefs challenged or validated. To be exposed to a world that is so different…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Kismet (Pamukkale, Selcuk, Ephesus, Izmir and Istanbul, Turkey: Part Two)
So time and again, I find that I am in the right place at the right time to meet the right people. It happens too frequently for me to say it’s just luck or good timing: is it my destiny to meet these people or is it my being open that allows for such meetings…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Kismet (Following Destiny in Turkey ~ Cappadocia: Part One)
kis·met: fate or destiny How fitting that I become reacquainted with this Turkish word while here. Merriam-Webster’s definition is ‘a power that is believed to control what happens in the future’ and therein lies the important question: is fate something that controls us or something that we create? Is destiny a single line from one…
Life, Love, Travel & Home
So it’s pretty obvious that I like to travel right? But I’m not a nomad, so I really do like having a place that I can call home. And I don’t think these two loves are mutually exclusive and this post shows you how I have combined them…I think rather nicely if I do say…
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Dreaming a Little Bigger (Musings through Jordan)
‘What if I fall?’ enters my head as I near the edge. But then I think to myself ‘oh but darling, what if you fly? You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger my love…’
Life, Love, Travel & the Pursuit of Parts Unknown (Intro to Burma, Myanmar) Part 1
So a big part of what I strive for as a global citizen is to do no harm or at least, do the minimal amount of harm ~ it seems like a simple enough mantra for life and travel but I have come to discover that things aren’t always so straight forward.
Beautiful Life Beautiful World 