Category: Blog

Richard’s old and battered wheelchair wobbles as Carlos pushes it down the streets of Medellin. The sidewalks of Boston –...

Can You Ever Go ‘Home’? An Account of Returning to Medellin Generally, my theory is not to back-track when it...

How I Spent My 2019 Summer Vacation  Wednesday 29 May – Since my stint as an illegal alien, I knew...

“Pardon?” “You are not registered in the system,” the woman at Migraciones informed me when I went to get a...

Diverse, edgy, colorful, and sometimes downright controversial, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival has sprawled out into the Scottish capital every August...

When I read and re-read the CBC article (nd) about the murder of Debbie Pelletier it hit me in the...

Calm down – I didn’t move to the monastery down the street. Rather, my thinking has been “converted” in terms...

How to Settle in Arequipa in the Andes Settling into a new country and a different city is always a...

You are cordially invited to the Historical Hanson Happening in Sheho, Saskatchewan on Saturday, June 6, 2020 in the Cenotaph...

How to Travel With the Refugees The promos for the bus trip from Machala to Piura said it took about...

Meandering around Machala on the Way to Piura It was time to go, that feeling when the road stretches out...

Since I was still awake at midnight-ish I checked my phone when it beeped. This is something I usually don’t...

Living in a Fish Bowl; Swimming with the Guppies When I landed in Loja, Ecuador at the end of June...

Adventures and More in Loja: What is the Next Chapter? While it is not for everyone, I really enjoying landing...