Travel blog by a global nomad
Today was the first day of my ongoing circumnavigations of Canada – I was heading from British Columbia to the Yukon. I had a friend who had just bought a car in Vancouver and needed to drive it back to the Yukon.
We had a false start before we really got going, taking Highway 99 past [...]
I think I’ve been pretty lucky… I’ve been to Chile quite a bit over a period of a decade and all for work. And yet somehow… I managed to see just about every attraction Chile has to offer from the dusty deserts, excellent surf and petroglyphs of Arica, though the driest desert in the world [...]
It had to be done… I’d been in Vancouver (on and off) for 5 months and I had not done the infamous Grouse Grind, Vancouver’s “Mother Nature’s stairmaster” – for the uninitiated this equates to:
A trail that is a short 2.9km (1.8 miles)…
…but rises 853m (2,800ft)…
…and you climb up 2,830 steps (but a squillion additional [...]
Don’t worry… not too many more photo albums to post… But here is the one from my Tibetan adventures! Although I spent most of the time working, the setting was stunning, the people were wonderful, the flowers were gorgeous and the yaks have become my favourite land based mammal (the sea otter still being my [...]
A few years ago I went to Iceland for a holiday. My goal was to see an erupting volcano… Suffice to say, it’s still my goal to see an erupting volcano…
However, I went on a hike through the volcanic lands to the southeast and south of Iceland, as well as doing some day trips out [...]
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