Travel
How to Commit to Long Term Travel
To choose to leave your home and head off for long term travel on adventures never-ending takes commitment and it takes effort. Suggesting otherwise, that it is somehow easy, is simply not true. Frequently, you will feel like you are ...
Inspiring Travel Starts in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Inspiring travel — travel which means more than simply ticking a place off a list, travel which asks questions, of you and of the world, and brings answers you might not have expected — is definitely a skill which you ...
Why Do I Travel? Compelling answers after 5 years.
An introduction to my thoughts on travel This is the first in a dedicated and ongoing series of posts in which I will talk of travel — of what makes it special, of how to do it right (for you), ...
Forthcoming Stories, On Direction
Where my work is going and what new releases you shall see, with additional rambling about mental health and the world burning. I recently threatened to post a blog here and, worryingly, it looks like that threat came true, if ...
Habits, Travels, Me, Future
Post Number 91 Over many years of trial and error (actually more a case of trial, error, another error, a bit more trial, error etcetera) I have learnt that I work best in short sprints, with a brief break between, ...
The East Coast of Caithness
Today is St. Andrew’s Day, so it makes sense to post something about Scotland and, in particular, the county I currently inhabit: Caithness. The North Coast 500 (NC500) long distance coastal route has brought an increased number of tourists to ...
A Note Full of Metaphor. Metaphorful?
(Which is a good word, whether it exists or not.) I write, I tell stories. Sometimes these are short, scant and brief, mere sketches of ideas designed to stimulate and provoke the thought process. At other times I write longer ...
Passing Through Doorways
In the introduction to this series on my forthcoming plans, I suppose I gave you a brief idea of my personal history involving my sense of the world as a whole — nature, culture, animal, mineral, vegetable — and for ...
See the World!
When I was young I wanted to see the world. I wanted to explore the unexplored, find hidden cities and lost tribes (never once thinking that these tribes were unlikely to have counted themselves lost), uncover ancient treasures and discover ...
North Sutherland, Scotland
All these photos were taken on Sunday the 1th of October. They are all taken from the car, along the route recently determined the "North Coast 500". I will be sharing more on this in the future, but for now ...
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