14 Countries, 14 Months defined in 14 Photos – A Snapshot of Central and South America
CUMULATIVELY, I’VE SPENT fourteen months in Central and South America. Sifting through some old photos since 2013, I got a little bit nostalgic. I’m still in Colombia (Medellin) so it’s not all doom and gloom! I felt it would be nice idea to share only one (!) photo, a memorable moment in each country in […]
Spanglish – An Eejit Abroad
IT’S VERY EASY to stay within your comfort zone in foreign countries. Especially when you can speak enough of the language to get around. I’m half way through my Colombia adventure, a third trip in two years. My first time on these shores was a backpacking trip through Central and South America. I fell in love with […]
Strength Training for a Broken Wrist
18 MONTHS ON from my jaunt down Death Road which ended in a broken and dislocated wrist with three metal pins inserted, I’ve slowly had to rebuild my arm strength again. Being right-handed and single at the time, well intentioned friends assured me that a subscription to Bangbros would soon whip my wasted forearm back […]
The Joy of Solo Travel
I’VE BEEN BLESSED to have spent a combined total of three years in the last decade backpacking and travelling through 25 countries across 4 continents. My first foray abroad without parents was as a painfully shy teenager at the tender age of 17 to the Balearic island of Ibiza in the late ’90s. My buddy […]
Ayahuasca – 1 Year Later (plus Q&A)
Hard to believe my little corner of the blogosphere is a year old. What started as a convenient way to update the folks back home of my travel adventures in Central and South America, it has now grown legs of its own while my own two are now firmly fixed in the Emerald Isle again. […]