by Kevin | Mar 22, 2015 | Blog, Home
It wasn’t supposed to be this night. This place. Not if I had had it my way. One of the ‘must-dos’ on my global walkabout was to see the Aurora Borealis (or northern lights as it’s more commonly referred to as) in Tromsø, Norway. While I knew going in that...
by Kevin | Nov 11, 2014 | Blog, Home
I was listening to Tim Ferriss’ podcast interview with Rolf Potts (author of Vagabonding) over the weekend as I was walking into the city, and something they talked about toward the end of part one (around 1:09:00) really made me pause and reflect. To be fair, a lot...
by Kevin | Oct 27, 2014 | Blog
Hey folks. Just a quick update today as I’m getting caught up to date on my blog after the first few weeks of my round the world travel. I was a fairly early adopter of Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus, but apart from them, I largely ignored all the other...
by Kevin | Oct 17, 2014 | Blog, Home
One of the most important things I did before setting out on an extended period of travel is to develop a minimalist lifestyle. It’s a necessary component in terms of moving around freely and lite enough around the world with only what you need. Turns out it also has...
by Kevin | Oct 11, 2014 | Blog, Home
Sometimes you hear of tourists being ripped off for something when in a foreign country because they aren’t familiar enough with the language and currency. I’m pretty careful when it comes to the currency part, but I have had a couple incidents already in just the...
by Kevin | Oct 7, 2014 | Blog, Home
Today marks the beginning of my extended wandering around the world. Where exactly am I going? Well, I arrived in Milan this morning and am somewhere in the Swiss Alps at the moment on the way Zurich where I’ll stay for a day or so (Italy and Switzerland become...