The Art of Possibility
The practice of giving an A transports your relationship from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility… This A is not an expectation to live up to, but…
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The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The Art of Memoir: Mary Karr Think One While writing Babybytes, I was both preoccupied and self-conscious about how to be as truthful as possible. The way I tell my…
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Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder
Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder This past summer, I had one goal: to write daily. As I wrote daily, short felt manageable in the long term. The first few writings…
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Why I Love Solo Travel
Why I Love Solo TravelIn a recent podcast episode, I asked a traveller who is visiting every country in the world what she considers to be the 4 Steps to…
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Travelling Minds Top 10 Episodes in 2019!
Top 10 Episodes in 2019! It’s been the year for podcasting! When I started this project, my goal was to make it to 11 episodes. I can hardly believe there are…
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My Self Help Obsession: Designing Your Life
Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans might be found in the ‘career/self-help’ sections at a book store, but it is much more than that. The book was…
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Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport
Book Review: Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport Have you ever found your mind wandering to the internet- even when you left your smart phone at home? Then start with this…
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Mission Complete! Digital Vacation and NaNoWriMo Results
I DID IT!! With 36 hours to spare, I finished the first draft of an entire fiction novel this morning! It felt good. Like, really good. As in, the most…
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NaNoWriMo and Digital Vacation Recap (Week 2)
Here’s what the founder of NaNoWriMo has to say about week two in No Plot? No Problem! : Welcome to Week Two. If you brought a poncho, now would be a…
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Well Travelled: Try a Digital Vacation at Home!
Technology on Long Trips On Travelling Minds, technology and travel comes up pretty often. Danya and I talked about how much changed since she first left home 11 years previous: it’s…
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The View: Nunavut 2016
In 2016, I went to Canada's Arctic to work for the Census as an enumerator. We went in February: known for being cold in southern Canada, let alone the Arctic.…
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Digital Vacation Recap (Week 1)
annie-spratt-HtVlyzA9I_w-unsplashThe first week of my digital re-tox (off social media) has been surprising. The first 24 hours, I constantly had my mind wander to people I don’t know, and wonder…
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How I am Quitting Social Media for 30 Days
Photo Credit to David Zawila, UnsplashHow NaNoWriMo led me to Quitting Social Media for 30 Days I first heard of NaNoWriMo last November. A month-long writing challenge, National Novel Writing…
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Love travel? Let’s Get Creative! [31 Day Challenge]
Why do people love travel? I’ve now had over two dozen conversations with real people about travel. Why they go, how they do it. The newness, the change of environment,…
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#20: What is Purpose Driven Travel?
What if you returned home from a trip having achieved a very specific goal? Purpose Driven Travel is choosing a focus for the duration of a trip, but there…
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Unplug on Vacation (Or at Home) with 5 Easy Tips
It’s summer and I just spent a week camping before the Canada Day weekend (July 1st). It was a great feeling to unplug on vacation: the weather helped, as well…
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#17: 5 Tricks to Unplug on Vacation
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, even you.” -Anne Lamott. Do you struggle with unplugging on vacation? Here are 5 unique tips to…
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Cead Mile Failte
When I arrived in Dublin, it was all blue skies, wide streets, accents, and that “stiletto in the ghetto” as locals like to call it (aka- the Spire). The feel…
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Find Quality Accommodation Like A Nomad
A common question about how we travelled for a year is ‘how do you afford that?’ How does someone afford to go away for 6 months, or a year? In a…
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New Mexico: Adobes, Earthships and Meow Wolf
After 6 days driving from Winnipeg’s “polar vortex” to New Mexico, we first went to Albuquerque, then to Taos and finally are in Santa Fe for a week. Santa Fe…
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Travel in Mind, Then Hit the Road
When we were in the planning stages of our year travelling, I had been working on a certification in Project Management. In anticipation of our trip, the tasks in order…
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Road trip trippin’ on.
In planning this trip, we decided to fly as little as possible. People fly to save time, but this year, we wanted to spend time. So, we took a total…
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Travel in Japan: the List of Weird and Wonderful
Adventures in very elaborate photo booths. We leave for Vancouver tomorrow- these weeks have flown by! I’d be remiss not to write one more post about travel in Japan.…
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Meet the Watanabes- Our Experience Volunteering in Japan
HelpX We are halfway through 6 weeks in Japan! Two of our weeks was spent volunteering in Japan with a small family of three in Kashiwabara, a town kind of…
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