This Life in Trips 2022 Travel Review and Look Ahead
byWith restrictions easing and vaccines in arms, travel made a return for many in 2022. For me, travel in 2022 got me out of…
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Is Georgia a Safe Country To Visit Right Now? I Head to Tbilisi To Find Out.
byIs Georgia a safe country to visit durring a global pandemic and while there is a war in Ukraine? Yes and no. For years…
This Life in Trips 2021 Travel Review and Look Ahead
byThe déjà vu is real. I am writing this in the same coffee shop I was sitting at in early March 2020 and the…
Backpacking and a Bad Back – Not an Ideal Combo
byShooting, crippling pain like I have never felt before ran down my back and to the tips of my toes. I made it as…
This Life in Trips 2020 Travel Review and Look Ahead
byWell, that was a year for the books! From a global pandemic to bringing social injustice to light, 2020 was rough. Not even remotely…
What It’s Like to Fly Across Canada During the Pandemic?
byAfter six months of sitting put, I got on my first plane and flew across the country. As expected, it was weird. Come along…
Should I Cancel My Flight or 2020 Travel Plans? Here’s My Take.
byThanks to the current pandemic, back in April I decided to push back my massive 2020 around-the-world trip. I also scaled it back. Instead…
If you can Isolate Together, you can Travel Together
byThings continue to look bleak when it comes to travel. With several changes to how we fly on the way, the days of carelessly…
This Life in Isolation – An Update on Travel, This Site, and What’s Next
byRight now I should be somewhere over the Atlantic ocean in Turkish Air’s brand new 787-900 business class. Instead, I’m in a Vancouver park…
Looking on The Bright Side – What Positives Might Come out of Post-Pandemic Travel
byIn my last post, I highlighted a few ways air travel will never be the same. From blood tests at airports to wearing a…
5 Air Travel Changes That May Become The New Normal
byIt’s funny how you can live through the golden age of something and not realize you’re in it. That’s how I feel about air…
Pandemic, Travel, & the Not-So-Obvious Reasons Why They Shouldn’t Mix
byIt’s funny how life can completely change in a matter of days. Just a few short weeks ago I was mulling over an offer…
This Life in Trips 2020 – Looking Back and Ahead
byHappy 2020 all! Just like every year, I am better-late-than-never on my forecasted travel plans and updates for this site. This is 100% therapeutic…
Five Places to Visit Before it’s Too Late
byWith rising global temperatures, erosion, and Instagram geotagging, some of the worlds most iconic locations are at risk of overcrowding, being damaged, or disappearing…
This Life in Trips 2019 – The Year I Embrace Part Time Travel
byAs hinted in my 2018 travel recap, 2019 will bring some changes to this site and my travel lifestyle. For the first time in…
This Life in Trips 2018 in Travel – Looking Back and Ahead
byIt’s that time a year again! The time we all compile our top nine Instagram photos, look back at the cool things we’ve done,…
This Life in Trips is Heading to India! Here’s What’s on Tap
byHeading to India has long been on my travel bucket list. I had planned to tour India while travelling for 14 months straight, however, the stars did…
Why Aussies Didn’t Win Me Over
byAustralia is a big beautiful country packed with amazing natural wonders and cosmopolitan charm. Unfortunately, like most places, it also has its share of…
5 Reasons to Visit Yellowknife in the Fall
byWhen a visitors centre member says “ don’t visit in the fall,” you know something isn’t right. That is what I was told on…
7 Global Trends that Prove we are not so Different after all
byDuring my 14-month tour around the world, I kept noticing the same trends no matter where I went. This caught me by surprise, but…
Searching for Life in DEdmonton, Alberta’s Capital of Boring
byIt’s pretty easy to put Edmonton down. It’s cold in the winter and covered in mosquitoes in the summer. The seasons in between can…
Visiting Széchenyi Thermal Baths – Budapest’s Most Popular Place to Relax
byBudapest is far and away my favourite stop on the Danube. With its crossroads location of eastern and western Europe, it has benefited from…
Cologne Beer Culture – Less is More?
byWhen you think of German beer, large steins and the busty Bavarian women carrying them come to mind…or at least for me that is….
3 Reasons Why Everyone Should Drive like Africans
byAlthough at first I was filled with terror, I quickly found that driving in Africa was not only easy but also much better than back…
Travel Advisory – The Very Real Effect the US Election has on your Next Trip
byI hate that I have to write this. For over a decade I’ve managed to escape mixing politics and travel and I had no…