I don’t know anyone that travels and enjoys paying the tourist price and this is readily apprent when you are traveling in developing reasons where tourism is a growing part of the local economy. There are places where as a visitor you are expected to pay more, it is what it is and we don’t …
Continue reading "Tourist Price, Pricing Differences and Grabs"Currently I’m in Ubud on Bali just wandering around. I am planning to do Gunug Rinjani if I can find a good deal but more and more my thoughts go back to the story to writing, to a universe that has no form except for what exists digitally and in my head. I have crafted …
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I have been a type 1 diabetic for a long time and in my travels I’ve gone to the edge of death and back. I’ve learned how to deal with it but that doesn’t mean it is easy or simple. Just keeping my insulin cold can be a bitch or getting a prescription and getting …
Continue reading "Diabetes and Travel"I remember hunting for work and feeling like I could never compete. It killed my soul, then I left and realized how small my world had become. I had to stop being defined by what others thought I needed, I had to leave normal, the expected behind. When I was in Pai in a truck …
Continue reading "You are never adrift, just finding your way"
There are the days that make you feel as if life is worth living, then there are the travel days where all you feel is the endless grind. This is one of those days, been in transit for a few days, first a 3 hour bus ride from Pai to Chiang Mai. From Chiang …
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I left hope when I was 25 years, I moved to Toronto, found a job and just as quickly it was gone. Then I went back to school and just as I finished the economy imploded around the advertising industry and some of us survived and were able to thrive and others like me ended …
Continue reading "11 Years, the other side of the world, from Writing to Fighting"
I remember the first time I heard about Pai, I was in Chiang Mai and it sounded like a cool chill place. I really wanted to go but I lost my wallet and soon that became a distance as reality hit me in the face and I had to pick up the pieces to see …
Continue reading "Restarting the Word Race after my 7th Muay Thai Fight"
There is something magic about going down the rabbit hole? When you can take, every inspiration, all the ideas and manipulate that into something new. That is when you are not just a writer or a creator but of what you create you are a God. When I started creating a world I started as …
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I want to write and I haven’t in ages, at least nothing story related because I don’t know what my voice is like. This means I need to experiment and although I’ve crafted my own universe I still need to just see how fiction works. You know in articles, you are reporting as an external …
Continue reading "Feeling out the word – A Choice, a search for a reason and Day 1"
So I was never really a physical person, I am a stubborn sort of person and even when I started to do muay thai the only thing that kept me there was the fact that I paid for it. I knew I sucked at it, I knew I looked like a fool most of the …
Continue reading "I hated running until I learned to Respect it"