December 29th? Today was hot and humid in Ubud, it feels nothing like the typical end-of-year weather in Toronto. There is no need to cuddle under a snuggie here – instead you spend most of the mid-day searching for shade. Despite the different environment, inside it feels the same. The end of December means reflecting [...]

What would you do if you were all alone on a non-deserted island on Christmas? Although it would be easy to sit around in your guest house missing home, the smell of cinnamon, the cozy soaks, stockings, oatmeal… This is your chance. It is a choose-your-own-adventure opportunity that may come only once in a lifetime. [...]

For those who are keeping track, this makes country number three since Halloween!I’m managed to stay healthy, relatively well-rested and decently enthusiastic about each day’s itinerary. But, being in Bali has been the hardest so far. Let me try to explain why. Well, it isn’t the amazing fruit. I picked up this salad at the [...]

“Bye-Bye Bangkok” Ed (Thailand’s sweetest chauffeur) encouraged me to say, and somehow through our mixed up English-Thai-hand gesture – dialogue I understood. On the way to the airport, I watched the skyscrapers shrink and the busy streets disappear behind me. As I approached the cocoon-like design of Bangkok’s main airport I started to think about [...]

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise… I’m not about to pretend that Elephant Nature Park is a utopia. I’m sure [...]

Do you remember the opening scene of Jurassic Park? Those epic vistas? The hills covered in luscious green foliage that parted as the van of excitement seekers drove into the valley? Well, put yourself in that van and you could have been there with me on Monday morning.I woke up at 4 am to fly [...]

The moment I stepped off the plane in Bangkok everything felt different.It was like someone took the world’s volume control panel and turned everything down a few levels. Bangkok is a huge city but next to Delhi it seems so clean and serene. After getting my passport stamped once again I was reunited with my [...]