5 Rules for Travelling In the Middle East

Note: Our friends Matt and Cayla are the world travellers of tomorrow. They don’t just go places to explore and experience. They stay so long that the obvious adventures become mundane, and real life in that place begins to reshape them. I don’t have plans to visit the Middle East soon. But Matt’s rules for [...]

Recap: Q Los Angeles 2013

So a couple of weeks ago, Jeremy calls me and says, “Would you be interested in attending this conference? Let me know by the end of today, because early registration is ending.” Normally, I’m not really a conference kind of girl… (And trust me, there are conference girls. Guys, too. They’re like those kids at [...]

How I got fired from a New Zealand vineyard

A scrawny old hippie leaped out of the 15-passenger van, his long white beard moving with the breeze. “You must be the two Canadians!” For four months, my friend Desirea and I had been backpacking around New Zealand, living like nomadic queens. Up until now, our most complex problem had been determining which cafe to [...]

5 ways to get over a travel hangover

There are two types of travel hangovers. The first is the sluggish feeling you get when you return to real life after a vacation, and the second, the type I am more concerned with here, is the overwhelming feeling that you get when you realize that you do not have a “real life” to return [...]

“Where is the Internet?”

I was never very concerned about where the Internet was until I was unable to find it. I assumed, like many people, that the Internet was an invisible force field of information that had enveloped the world because the Internet is, as they say, world-wide. However, I have found that in asking the question ‘where [...]

The Nature of News

I was attending the Evensong service at Westminster Abbey on February 11th when I first heard the news that Pope Benedict XVI announced an early retirement from the papacy. My immediate reaction was a mixture of curiosity and embarrassment. I was curious to know what led Pope Benedict to become the first pope in 600 years [...]

Going on an adventure

Ever since my wife accepted the position as field director of a small NGO in rural Uganda (The Tekera Resource Centre) in late December, people continually referred to our move as an adventure. “What an adventure!” our friends would say, “You are going to have an amazing adventure!” And before I realized, I too was [...]

How to make money while travelling

Do you love to travel? I donʼt mean going to Mexico for a week, thatʼs a vacation, I mean travel. Pull up your roots, get on a plane and live somewhere else for a few weeks or more. I am a nomad at heart and have been lucky to do a lot of travelling and see many great [...]

5 Missions destinations to visit

Growing up in church culture, I knew that when a missionary came to town, I could expect to hear a few good stories, see some grainy photos, and play with some interesting tribal nick-nacks. This, I distinctly remember, was all in attempt to compel our church to fund the missionary to live in a strange [...]

Why you should travel young

Youth is that time of your life when you are totally empowered to do whatever you want to do. Forget about the “yeah but…” and just do it, travel young, it will change you in ways that nothing else can or will.