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The Love of Small Things – settling into home after years on the road.

September 24, 2017

From Alison: August 31st was our six-year anniversary of becoming homeless and nomadic. Five years and nine months later, on …

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The End of an Era

July 2, 2017

Six years ago Don and I made the decision to sell our apartment and our car, sell or give away …

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Why The Best Travels Of My Life Started After Fifty

April 6, 2017

An article I wrote for Intrepid has just been published in The Journal, by Intrepid Travel. Head on over and …

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Time For a Time Out

March 5, 2017

It’s snowing. In Vancouver. In March. It has apparently been one of the worst winters in Vancouver in decades. Worst …

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Five Months In Vancouver: a long rambling story

November 21, 2016

31 May-31 Oct 2016. We haven’t had a home for over five years now. People ask us if we ever …

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#freshfish #icecream #sunsets #pelicans #paradise

November 14, 2016

4 April – 31 May 2016. On Mexico’s Pacific coast, eighty kilometres (50mi) north of Manzanillo is Tenacatita Bay. Where …

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An Oriole in a Hibiscus Tree – the beauty of La Manzanilla

November 4, 2016

4 April – 31 May, 2016. I’m snoozing on and off in the big luxurious padded seat. I’ve been writing …

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It Wasn’t Supposed To Be Like This!

September 6, 2016

For months now a post about the inner journey has been rumbling around inside of me trying to find a …

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Snail Mail

February 12, 2016

I’ve been on the move again. Ra, over at rarasaur has put together a series of articles called the Sonder …

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A Week to Arrive: creating a home in San Miguel de Allende.

January 21, 2016

14 January 2016. We had to be in Canada for two months after we returned from Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt …

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Do you want a home or do you want a life?

August 14, 2015

We were in our sixties and faced with the reality that we couldn’t have both. We didn’t see it with …

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This Nomadic Life – Guest Post and Interview

May 20, 2015

We are honoured to have been invited once again to write a guest post for Retirement and Good Living. This time …

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This Nomadic Life – To travel or not to travel?

January 13, 2015

In July 2014 Don suffered a burst disc in his lumbar spine. The injury was revealed by an MRI scan …

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This Nomadic Life – The next leg

November 30, 2014

After six months back in Vancouver we are off on the next leg of the never-ending journey. This leg will …

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Tenmangu flea market is known locally as Tenjin-san flea market. It's as if the attics and storage rooms of Japan have been emptied out and put on display - uniquely Japanese antiques and curios, and racks of gently loved kimonos. It feels like a small-time festival. Nishiki Market, a narrow street of five covered blocks with a ceiling of rainbow windows, is known as the kitchen of Kyoto. There are hundreds of shops and restaurants and the market is a long-standing fixture of ordinary life in the city. See my latest blog post: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt - a flea market and a food market in Kyoto. Link in bio.
Kitano Tenmangu flea market, known as Tenjin-san, has the feel of a small-time festival. Performing together at the flea market in Kyoto, I think this human has had his monkey from when it was a tiny baby. The love between the two is so palpable, and the monkey looks so healthy, that it makes me smile. It’s such a delightful performance. It doesn’t matter that I don’t understand a word of what the human is saying, the monkey says it all in his own clever way, and when it’s time to bow, he bends at the waist so low his head is on the ground. The whole audience laughs and claps. See my latest blog post: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt - a flea market and a food market in Kyoto. Link in bio.
Kitano Tenmangu flea market is known locally as Tenjin-san flea market. It's as if the attics and storage rooms of Japan have been emptied out and put on display. There are both special artefacts, and the detritus of life spread out on the street; picture frames and small furniture, vinyl records, toys, an old scale, stacks of new dishes, beautiful handmade pottery, and uniquely Japanese antiques and curios, and rack upon rack of gently-loved kimonos. It feels like a small-time festival, and we lucked into it. It only happens on the 25th of each month. See my latest blog post: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt - a flea market and a food market in Kyoto. Link in bio.
Nishiki Market, a narrow street of five covered blocks with a ceiling of rainbow windows, is known as the kitchen of Kyoto. The market began life in the 1300’s as a wholesale fish market. Over the years it morphed into a retail market selling primarily foods, but also various other goods. There are hundreds of shops and restaurants, many of which have been in the same family for generations, and the market is now a long-standing fixture of ordinary life in the city. These two ladies are selling tea, and they hand out tea samples in beautiful pottery cups. No one steals the cups, because Japan. See my latest blog post: The Ultimate Treasure Hunt - a flea market and a food market in Kyoto. Link in bio.
For over three weeks we were based in Cusco, the still-beating heart of the Inca Empire, as we explored the Urubamba Valley. It is known as the Sacred Valley because it was the property of the emperor, and it is littered with imposing Inca ruins and traditional villages. We visited such sites as Moras with its enormous circular crop terraces, the cascading salt evaporation ponds of Moray, the villages of Chinchero and Ollantaytambo, several of the more prominent Inca ruins, and of course Machu Picchu. And all along the way we encountered ordinary people living their lives pretty much in the same way as they have done for hundreds of years.
After a three day overland trip from San Pedro de Atacama, Chile across the Bolivian altiplano to the Uyuni salt flats we flew to La Paz, Bolivia’s capital. I don’t remember why we decided to not spend time in La Paz; instead we took a bus straight to Copacabana on the shores of Lake Titicaca. I took this photo from the bus while waiting to leave La Paz. Mi ciudad esta cambiando – My city is changing. Blog post: Salt Flats and Bowler Hats. Link in bio.

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