TweetI’m sure that most of you have already heard of my latest project Vagabundo Magazine.  I’ve been harping on about the magazine for the past couple months and have been working very hard to try to make it a success. In the end, I am very excited to be able to announce that just a [...]

TweetI still remember the day I picked you up at the government office in Calgary all those years ago. You were shiny, wide-eyed to the world, and ready for adventure. I remember first holding you in my hands. I felt a great responsibility; and as I looked around the room filled with people, many of [...]

TweetIt is with great excitement I reveal one of my projects: an online travel magazine for independent travellers. I would like to present you to Vagabundo Travel Magazine The Inspiration Interesting projects and opportunities seem to have come and gone through my email inbox and conversations at a rapid pace over the past year.  Many of those [...]

TweetIs there a place on earth that has a more interesting meld of people than an international airport? If you’re into people watching then the airport is a goldmine. It’s not only an agglomeration of cultures, but types of people. I have spent obscene amounts of time in airports around the world, and as much [...]

Tweet Nearly all of us who travel have a tiny part of us who begs for attention.  Who am I kidding? A large part of us begs for attention. We dream of being able to tell our story.  We lose sleep over the thought that maybe someone might actually care enough to hear about it. [...]

TweetDear mom articles have become the bane of my existence as a travel writer. For those of you who don’t follow me regularly, a “dear mom” article is an article in which you could place dear mom at the start of the majority of sentences and paragraphs and it would still make sense. Those types of [...]

Tweet When backpacking solo we often find ourselves greatly accustomed to sleeping in a room with 4-12 other people. The dorms are living organisms in themselves. There always seems to be someone sleeping, no matter what time of day, and there are always people in the bathrooms. Some of us who have been on the [...]

Tweet Paraguay has always been on my travel radar, which confuses the variety of travelers whom I have explained this to along the way. Why Paraguay? Well, because it is a place on a map. I don’t visit countries to check their names off a list or to be able to place tacks on a [...]

Tweet In the wonderful land that is Antarctica I took 0n average 400 pictures a day.  Of those pictures I kept about 20-40 each day.  Of those 20-40 only about 2-4 made their way onto the pages of this blog.  Some of the images have sold, others have kind of just sat on my external [...]

TweetSouth American Smackdown: Argentina vs. Brazil Today I am putting to an end the age old battle of which country is better: Brazil or Argentina.  I would, however, love to hear your opinions on the matter as well! Maradona vs. Pele This is my favourite battle in the world.  I love how if you go to [...]