Month: December, 2009

What a girl wants, what a girl needs...

I like pretty dresses, with match­ing purses and shoes. I like to blow dry my hair every morning and some­time give it curls. Fresh ground coffee beans are a great way to start the day or perhaps a home made espresso on the stove, brewing away. In the winter time, colour coordin­ated scarves, mittens and toques are a must. [...]

Packing up our life (and our bags)

Laura and I are up to our eyes in boxes and tubs, ruth­lessly redu­cing our belong­ings through online sales and the ever-growing Goodwill pile. Our house is in shambles, Zappa (our cat) is freaked out, but we’re making pro­gress. We’ll be out of here in a  couple of days, and offi­cially home­less. We’re already officially [...]

One bag, one world. Or something...

Business trav­el­ers are no strangers to the idea of bring­ing everything they need in a carry-on, and I have been priv­ileged to inter­act with a lot of die hard busi­ness trav­el­ers in my current (but out­go­ing) job. These people are all about effi­ciency , and they know that it is asking for trouble to trust [...]

Italy, Greece, Dominican Republic?

Well it appears that once you announce dra­matic plans for world travel the oppor­tun­it­ies start to come out of the wood­work. We may be amend­ing our hasty travel plans to include Mycenae and Meteora, Greece, some Greek islands and Italy, as well as (the com­pletely unsus­pec­ted) Dominican Republic. Will keep you updated, but this might [...]

Hello world!

This blog is up, but a def­in­ite work in pro­gress. If you’re check­ing it out now, that’s cool, but you may want check back in in a couple of weeks. The fin­ished version is going to be a bit more elegant than this one. I hope to make it a nice, clean inter­face, where the [...]