Disclaimer: I didn’t plan to stay in Istanbul If you’ve read some of my other blog posts, you’ll know I prefer natural landscapes over cities. At first, I didn’t have any reason to visit Istanbul and wanted to travel elsewhere in Turkey. Had the trains out of Istanbul not been booked up in advance due to […]
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On My First Trip to Egypt I knew I would visit the Pyramids of Giza and the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. Being a nature lover (I talk about my love for nature traveling here), I wanted something beyond the busy attractions. That’s how I stumbled upon an overnight White Desert Tour. After an
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If you’re an avid solo traveller, you could probably give me a long list of why you love it. But if you could pick your number 1 reason why you choose to go on solo trips, what would that be? My answer: Freedom. There’s only one problem though: Having the freedom to do as you
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Exploring a new place after flying hundreds (or thousands!) of miles is exciting. New sights, new landscapes, new people, new food, new smells—we are filled with wonder as we explore. As we wander with excitement, locals pass by without the same eyes of excitement, because they feel they have seen everything around them before. Today’s
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What’s one item that you would NEVER want to forget before catching the flight on your next trip? I bet that one of those items is your camera. It’s one of mine too. I love taking photos (sometimes I like to be artsy and pretend like I’m some kind of photographer), and in truth they
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I am back again with another Travel Thoughts blog! The past few weeks we have discussed topics such as simplicity vs poverty, craving culture shock, and last week (which relates to today) the power of nature. Today I am going to focus on the attraction to sublime landscapes—unscalable mountains, vast deserts, and ocean horizons—and how they affect our
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I’m back with another blog on Travel Thoughts! Today we are focusing on the ability of nature to provide us with mental escapes long after we depart from the beautiful landscape. To help discuss this topic I will be sharing some excerpts from The Art of Travel (Alain de Botton, 2002) which I also referenced
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I’m back with another blog of travel thoughts, and I’m here to share some more book excerpts from two books. The first, is Full Tilt (1965), by Dervla Murphy (which I talk about in last week’s blog). The second is The Art of Travel (2002) by Alain de Botton, which teaches several important lessons travel can
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This week I’m sharing some travel thoughts with you (ie. philosophical travel themes that keep me up at night). Today’s focus is on alternate views of what many people deem ‘poor’, as well as some views on what the best version of mankind looks like. If you prefer to listen instead of read, you can
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Today I’ll be covering some information about one other hike I went on while in the Bruce Peninsula in March. If you missed out my previous blogs, you can check out this one about the Bruce Caves, and this one about the Grotto. Both are great options for winter adventures. Going in the winter lets you avoid
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