Letting Go is the Scariest Part

Today I went rock climbing, on a rock climbing wall with an automatic belay, which means there’s not a human holding the rope to bring you down. So you are just supposed to let go. Letting go, I decided, is the scariest part. And it’s so true, isn’t it? Challenge I can do. Climbing to […]

Name That Bond

Went on a James Bond-themed tour of Nassau, Bahamas today, and this blog isn’t normally a travel blog, but what the heck… here’s a few fun moments from the day of chasing Bond… Bonus points to anyone who can name the Bond movie(s) from these scenes!!! That’s all I’ve got for now – can anyone […]

(b)leisure haiku

On a “Bleisure” trip The leisure part starts today 🤙 Gone cruising 🚢

Timeline Folds

Has your timeline ever folded in on itself? Sometimes it happens in dreams, when you’re transported to another place and time but as your current self. Sometimes it happens in real life, when you visit a place you used to be, or meet somebody you used to know, and it’s as though no time has […]

Time Cheat

I have a confession to make. I have been cheating on the “post-a-day” goals of Nano Poblano for the last few days. The truth is, I’m currently in East Coast time, but my blog is in West Coast time, and I haven’t changed it. So if I post after midnight, it’s the next day here […]

Overheard Haiku

A chicken sandwich on rye, from 40 feet will break a car windshield -Overheard in a conversation It’s not strictly speaking a proper haiku. But it’s one of the funniest (and entirely serious) things that came up in conversation so far at the conference I’m currently attending, so I simply had to share it. Can […]

Come to Space with Me

Would you like to come to space with me? Today I went to a conference roundtable session on Space Tourism. It was a bit surreal listening to the very real conversations about commercial space travel, how “certified space (travel) agent” is apparently a thing, how one company expects to have a fleet of spaceships in […]

Out of Office

Greetings honoured email sender, I’m “out of office” for the next week and a half and may be slower than usual replying to your email. Actually, unless someone is going to die on the operating table without a response from me, I probably won’t respond at all until after this time. (By the way if […]

Tourism for Peace

It’s Remembrance Day in Canada today, and it’s impossible to simply “remember” the past right now without being hyperaware of everything that’s happening in the world in the present. The idea of tourism as a path for peace is something I’ve been passionate about since coming into the tourism industry. In my early days as […]

Alternate Universe Self

Do you ever wonder what the alternate universe version of yourself is up to? In an alternate universe, where you made slightly different decisions — or others did — that changed your trajectory only slightly, or altered the course of your life in more major ways… where you’d be now, what you’d be doing, who […]