As a traveller I love travel, both physical and mental. The other day we went to a movie after work to see The Way, My Way, a story about an Australian filmmaker, with a bum knee, who decides to embark on a pilgrimage to walk the Camino de Santiago across Spain. It hits all the notes of a grand adventure - beauty, humour, overcoming challenges and human connection. The Camino commonly begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France and transverses the north of Spain. It's 800 ki

As a young girl, around seven or eight years old, my grandparents took my brother and I to Niagara Falls from our small town in the Eastern side of Ontario, Canada. It’s not as though I’d never left home but it was the first time I ever travelled anywhere specifically as a tourist . The week leading up to the trip I floated on cloud nine, writing my packing lists and preparing my suitcase with precision. My grandparents turned the backseat of the car into a fort with pillows

I had the privilege to live in Argentina for eight years when my children were little. A country that adores small children; it was a wonderful place to be a young mother. I hadn't returned in over 10 years and would daydream about it. Being so intimately connected with a place, and then not returning for a long time is surreal. The mind can play funny tricks. What does the memory embellish? How much is reality and how much is rose coloured glasses? About six months ago,

Travel is my jam. I was a traveller before the internet, and selfies and Instagram made it cool. I was a traveller before I had the opportunity to travel, and will continue to be until I leave this earth, whether I travel or not. I was born with an insatiable curiosity and a need to go. And yet for several years travel became a construct. I went to graduate school as a single mother, was raising kids and returning to the workforce. And then a little thing called the pand

My closets will never be more organized than they were partway through the pandemic. I had the joy of coming across my old journal that I...