Tag: Travel

Merry Christmas! As seems to be my pattern lately I keep pushing the gear post later and later. Sorry about that! It happens because I get excited about gear and always end up testing a bunch of things right near the end. One thing I’m very excited about this year is that I was able…

When I asked for blog posts at my last Budapest event, one person asked how I spend my time on airplanes. At first I didn’t think I had all that much to say about it, but as I thought about it I realized that airplane time is actually quite critical, especially when you travel a…

This post isn’t suggesting that you should solo scuba dive. Scuba diving has risks and I don’t know anything about you. Part of why I always buy properties with my friends is so that we can take advantage of the things that are easy to do in each location but hard to do in other…

If you were the guy sitting in 29F yesterday, I really hope you’re reading this. I’m generally unflappable and not easily annoyed by people, but that goes out the window when I’m traveling by airplane. I imagine the frustration to be the same as Gordon Ramsay might feel if I was his sous chef. I…

I like and spend time in several cities which are very different from each other. Las Vegas, Hilo (Hawaii), Budapest, rural Halifax (our island), and Tokyo. On paper it would be hard to draw many links between those cities, which of course led me to think about why I liked all of them so much.…

Since a few years ago, when I realized that I vastly preferred traveling with my friends versus traveling solo, almost all of my travel has been with other people. I’m fortunate to have a group of friends who are really good travelers, but that’s not always the case. If you aren’t sure whether you’re good…

I used to be neutral, or maybe slightly negative on museums. There was something pleasant about being in them, but I didn’t really know what I was supposed to do there, and always felt like I was doing it wrong. And it turned out I was doing them wrong. I was introduced to a guy…

In 2017 I built a small cabin in the woods of Nova Scotia. I did almost none of the building, but did do most of the design of the cabin and am now doing the follow-up work on it. Building a cabin is shockingly cheap. It’s one of those situations where you get about 80%…

Maintaining a healthy relationship while traveling can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. Like anything, there are pros and cons, and by mitigating the cons and focusing on the pros, you can even make it a good thing. As someone who travels for the majority of the year, I have a lot of…

I love planning trips for my friends. I think that it’s a great way to do a service to my friends, to spend time with them, and to foster new connections between them. I believe that if all of my friends are good friends with each other, that makes my friend circle very strong. The…