Rhythm & reflection: A journey to the deep south
In spring 2022 most of the travel restrictions had been lifted and Chuck and I were itching to hit the road somewhere. We thought a U.S. road trip to the south would be fun. [Read more]
Photography
Living, Lagos style
After exploring the history, the beach, the jungle and the village, the last bits of our Nigerian adventure I want to highlight is the large city of Lagos itself. The bad [Read more]
Living large in a small village
Cheers to village living! After a short flight from Lagos to Owerri, Chuck and I were greeted at the airport to be escorted to his home village of Okpofe in Imo State. For [Read more]
Eat, grieve, love. Remembering how beautiful life is in Italy
The last few years have been hectic. HECK-TIC! My partner Chuck and I have been furiously renovating our new home, figuring out how to parent teenagers and also figuring out [Read more]
Chasing GOATs, a sports pilgrimage for two
Chuck loves goats. If you know him, you know this about him. They are like his favourite animals. He follows 100% Goats, because they guarantee 200% goats. And in late summer [Read more]
Reviving a former beauty
Chuck and I bought a house! In the spring of 2018, we finally bit the bullet and started looking for a house together. We wanted an older home not far from the city centre as [Read more]
On the road again: How to plan a memorable road trip
In early June, we embarked on our latest Canadian road trip, this time to the furthest eastern part of North America: Newfoundland. This was our last province to tackle [Read more]
Get your motor running
Well, hello friends, it's been awhile, hasn't it? Sometimes I think I could be a decent travel blogger and then reality hits when I realize it's been four months and I've [Read more]
When you take the Game of Thrones tour, you walk or you lag behind
Whenever a new HBO show comes out, I give it a shot. When I saw the first trailer for Game of Thrones, I was intrigued. When I watched the first scene, I was hooked. To me, it [Read more]
Cliffs and castles and puffins and cows
Tour buses suck. They just do. No human wants to be treated like cattle, yet that's how most of those tours work. However, sometimes they're necessary when you need to [Read more]
Live fast, have fun, be young in Dublin
I'm not sure what to think about Dublin. I arrived with preconceived notions of what I thought this city would be like and each one of those notions was [Read more]
I fell in love with the shinin’ ring of Éire
Not gonna lie, the weather on my summer trip to Scotland and Ireland was anything but summer-y. These places might scale lighter on the landmass size, but they have weather [Read more]
11 reasons why you shouldn’t visit The Highlands
Dark colours, crumbling castles and unkempt creatures are all part of the supposed "charm" of The Highlands. After a three day whirlwind of a tour, I can safely attest that [Read more]
Casting call: Potter & Me
I never really thought much about Scotland's connections to Harry Potter, one of my favourite things, before coming to this part of the world. The minute I touched down, that [Read more]
It’s not the camera, but who’s behind it
On a cloudy, windy morning in Edinburgh -- they have a lot of those -- I met up with James Christie of Edinburgh Photography Tours to walk the town, take in a bit of history [Read more]
