Every traveller has a story to tell about how small the world is. How they were on a chicken bus in Mexico and sat next to their cousins best friend from high school who lives two streets away from their Grandmother. Yeah, you know the ones. Well, in a year of travel, I too have a few [...]

I’ve been traveling fulltime for the past 11 months; mostly in Europe; mostly with no idea of what I was doing, and where I was going next. And for the most part, everything has turned out perfectly; I wouldn’t change it for the world. You guessed it; I’m an advocate for carefree open itinerary travel. Where [...]

After my first day on the open water dive course, I woke up ready to learn some new skills and discover the underwater world off the beach in Dahab, Egypt. But, I woke up with a strange feeling in my left ear. Uh Oh. Wtf have I done? was my immediate thought. I couldn’t really [...]

My first day of the dive course I almost drowned. OK, that may be a little bit of an exaggeration, since the entire dive I was accompanied by a certified and experienced dive instructor, but read on to find out more. After my introduction to diving yesterday, I decided to go ahead and spend a week in [...]

The minivan picked me up at my hotel at 11pm, and drove a group of 15 of us up to Mt. Sinai (Moses Mountain) for an overnight trek to see the sunrise. Mt. Sinai is on the Asian side of Egypt, the Sinai peninsula, and stands at about 7,500 ft. Sinai, which separates Africa and the Middle [...]