November 4, 2020 Optimism I think there’s a palpable reason why I’ve started watching Star Trek: The Next Generation again. In the fictional future presented in the program…
September 29, 2020 The Story Gabe was fond of telling a ghost story. It involved staying in a haunted hotel in 2013 on one of our motorcycle journeys together….
September 25, 2020 Mike Whitfield There’s a bond that comes from having travelled with someone, especially if the experience involves two people. There are ups and downs and only…
September 13, 2019 Learning from Laing: how a 20th Century naturalist has influenced me It has been nearly two years since a project with a different flavour from what I had done previously began. What started off as…
June 4, 2018 A Change of Plans I was out riding with my friend David Powell this weekend and we stopped for a break near Iona Beach. He parked his Honda…
January 15, 2018 The Gift of Travel When I was a little boy growing up in Victoria, British Columbia, my Aunt Alice, who lived on the other side of Canada in…
September 12, 2017 Searching For The Authentic Travel Experience This was a non-fiction contest entry that failed to get awarded anything. Perhaps because it wouldn’t have fit in a mainstream travel magazine…
May 31, 2017 I am an Everyman I’ve got to point something out. I’m a stay-at-home dad. I’m a loving husband to my wife, Laura. I look after my wonderful thirteen-year-old…
October 15, 2016 Does Adventure Allow Us to Take Back Control? I’ve been reading Tim Cahill’s book “Pass the Butterworms: remote journeys oddly rendered”. As a writer he is adventurous, traveling the world and getting…
