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]
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A walk above the trees
Look up, way up, that’s where you’ll find us walking over the jungle canopy. In November 2021, my partner Chuck and I spent a morning at the Lekki Conservation [Read more]
Discovering Naija’s vibrant roots
On a balmy Wednesday morning in November 2021, while staying in Victoria Island, Lagos, we visited the Nigerian National Museum. The museum was rich with artifacts from [Read more]
The beauty and the birds of Witless Bay
Way back in 2018 -- oh, remember those glory days before corona -- I meant to share a bit about our adventure along the Atlantic Coast while we were road tripping through [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]
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]
Do things with your mom
"Could we have a day?" That was my mom asking my sister and me if we could spend a full day touring Maui together on our last family vacation. We were completely taken [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]
I went to Hawaii and all I got was this lousy missile crisis
Aloha, friends. Usually when I travel, I like to think about how I will put into words what I see and do to give a glimpse at how a place looks or feels. And it's never hard [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]
