Friday, April 26, 2024
  With only a short boat ride from Sabah's capital, Kota Kinabalu in Malaysian Borneo, the island of Gaya is a healing refuge for both men and creatures.   From the deck of a speeding motor boat scuttling along at 25 knots,...
 There are these moments in Lyon during summer when the heat seemed to be far removed, tempered by a cool breeze where the Rhône River meets the Saône before rolling on toward the Mediterranean. It is at this time when tourists...
Throw a cat in the air, it will always land on its feet. But what happens when a cat lands in water? I’m that cat in the water. I’ve realized since moving to Spain, no amount of freestyle will...
In Madeira, Quintas are becoming the new cultural touchstones and enduring icons that define Portuguese hospitality.  It was the best of times. I am traveling to Madeira. It was the worst of times. The plane that would take me to...
A Covid-19 reflection from bloggers around the world and how they see the future of travel as they learn to forge new paths.  It was inevitable: the scent of freedom always reminded me of the fate of unrequited love.The last...
Travel Hack 101 - know a city and make it fall in love with you.How to know a city? Let me count the ways. There are only two things that one should always remember. FIRST is to learn about the...
​Along the highway of life, we come across strangers that leave a part of themselves with us. Oftentimes, they become a part of our journey and the bittersweet landscapes that we travel to.  He wears his smile like a child...
Why boarding a bus invites introspective reflections and pleasures of the everyday. Next stop which loosely translates to prochain arrêt in French revolves around the countless bus rides and why there’s more to it than getting on and getting...
Under the cobalt glory of the Algarve sky, I arrived in Olhão, Portugal in the sweet summer of 2019. My affection towards the town and my wish to go back there is echoed in the work of fiction written...
Sights, sounds, the self and a schloss -l'Invitation au voyage in the snowy Bavarian Alps.  There are elephants in the room. I am of course referring to the ubiquitous and recurring elephant patterns of my bed’s headboard, as well as...

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