TweetThe Love of Being Scared: Navigating Life’s Tricky Paths I know I’m going back to South America, so I can’t really explain what’s going through my head as I sit here on my computer at the airport waiting for my flight back to Canada. Part of me is excited.  I’ll kiss the soil as soon [...]

TweetUsing Clicky Stats Amazing Features I think that you should know before reading this post that I will gain a little bit of commission if you use the product that I am about to endorse. However, I think it’s equally important to note that I am not being paid to draw your attention to the [...]

TweetFoto Friday: The Santa Catolina Monastery The city of Arequipa, Peru sits at the base of three very large snow-capped volcanoes. These volcanoes very much define the city, not only for the amazing backdrop that they provide, but also for the material they once produced. Arequipa is known as the “White City” because of a [...]

TweetBlog Exposure: Expat Daily News People travel for a variety of different reasons.  Some do it to gain a different world perspective, others because they want to explore, and some just need to get away from the rat race of the 9 to 5 life.   My feature this week on Blog Exposure probably fits [...]

TweetPhoto of the Week: Bulls Fighting In Arequipa, Peru one of the more interesting varieties of Bull Fighting takes place.  Here, rather than people fighting bulls, the bulls fight each other.  Land owners breed and train these very large bulls from birth for this very event and wager huge amounts of money between them on [...]

TweetIn the past I have tried to steer clear of articles written about my life plans for a number of reasons. For one, Machu Picchu usually yields a higher google search percentage that does the name Brendan van Son (for now anyways… look out world wonders). Actually the truth is that I try to stick [...]

TweetIt’s fun to reminisce about our old travel experiences. One of my first solo travel experiences was in Central America, which I’m still in love with to this day. I have yet to find a place that holds so much adventure, mystique, and history all in one tight compact space. Many of the people who [...]

TweetBlog Exposure: Traveling Savage Keith’s popular blog “Traveling Savage” has been a main stay on the Top 100 Indy Travel Websites list, and is the first site that will be exposed by the latest series on The World is my Jungle Gym called “Blog Exposure.” The Traveling Savage is a refreshing travel blog taking an [...]

TweetCartagena Canon This photo was taken from the huge cement fort in Cartagena, Colombia. The fort used to protect Spanish gold and silver taken from South America that was being prepared to be sent off to Europe. Cartagena was under regular attacks from pirates and privateers alike for many decades. This canon points out towards [...]

TweetHow to use StumbleUpon to Effectively Generate Traffic I have been using StumbleUpon for the past 3 months or so and only recently have I begun to crack the codes for using this cranky creature effectively. I thought I’d play nice and share what I’ve learned so far by using the site, chatting with other [...]