The Love of Small Things – settling into home after years on the road.
From Alison: August 31st was our six-year anniversary of becoming homeless and nomadic. Five years and nine months later, on …
Category Archives: This Nomadic Life
Homing In On Home
From Don: I don’t know what to say, I hardly know where to begin. We got back to Vancouver from …
The End of an Era
Six years ago Don and I made the decision to sell our apartment and our car, sell or give away …
Why The Best Travels Of My Life Started After Fifty
An article I wrote for Intrepid has just been published in The Journal, by Intrepid Travel. Head on over and …
Time For a Time Out
It’s snowing. In Vancouver. In March. It has apparently been one of the worst winters in Vancouver in decades. Worst …
I never ever ever want to be in another relationship again. Ever!
That’s what we said to each other. And we meant it. Don was 52 when we met. I was 44. …
Five Months In Vancouver: a long rambling story
31 May-31 Oct 2016. We haven’t had a home for over five years now. People ask us if we ever …
SMA – WTF?
From Don: Late March 2016. This has been a long time coming: bubbling along in the back of my mind …
Why I Blog: Creativity And The Need To Give It Away
It’s still a surprise for me to discover that I’m a blogger. I never meant to be. It came about …
It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This!
For months now a post about the inner journey has been rumbling around inside of me trying to find a …
To Tour Or Not To Tour? Independent Travel Versus Travelling With a Tour Group
The last day of our one-week tour through Jordan – from my journal 11 October 2015: I haven’t slept well. …
Snail Mail
I’ve been on the move again. Ra, over at rarasaur has put together a series of articles called the Sonder …
A Week to Arrive: creating a home in San Miguel de Allende.
14 January 2016. We had to be in Canada for two months after we returned from Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt …
This Precious Life
I recently read an article about dialoguing with the body to create healing. Soon after this we attended a weekend …
Adventures in Wonderland 