Travel

In another life, I would have pursued a career in art. Perhaps one day, I might still. Growing up, I always felt absolutely overwhelmed with creativity. I read books and…

One of my favorite things about my trip to Esperance was the jarring color palette. Here, on the bottom left corner of Australia, deep red rocks the color of clay…

These days Antarctica photos aren’t as hard to come by as they used to be.  Nothing can compare to the wild and untamed grandeur that is Antarctica. Here vast white…

As a travel writer for more than a decade, I’ve stayed in a lot of accommodation over the years. From sleeping on a pile of mats in a yurt in…

When I spent a week in Esperance, in Western Australia, last year, I often felt like I had stumbled into a fairytale. With the whitest sand beaches in the world…

For years and years, I’ve harped on and on here about birds in New Zealand. I love them.  Because New Zealand evolved without mammals, many evolved to fill that ecological…

Queenstown has long been the jewel of New Zealand’s South Island. With its sprawling views over the Remarkables mountain range to the bright blue waters of Lake Wakatipu, visitors flock…

A couple of months ago, I reconnected with a friend, Nikki, here in New Zealand. Nikki attended one of the online bootcamps I used to co-run, where we taught people…