It’s that time again. Candidates’ signs are decorating front lawns and wooden fences; flyers filled with promises not yet broken are cluttering mailboxes; and party leaders are on the TV explaining that their rivals hate puppies. Election season, nothing quite like it. The leaders are particularly nasty to one another throughout this whole ordeal. It’s high school...
Armraynald Station near Burketown, Queensland – I wanted to run from here shortly after arriving. I was about 8 months into my Australia trip when I landed at Armraynald. My backpacking routine in Australia was cyclical: travel, go broke, find work, make money, repeat. It’s early August in 2014 and this story picks up in the ‘find work’ stage of the cycle. I had just...
If you Google search “Timor-Leste tourism”, what you’ll end up finding is likely nothing more than development reports, travel advisories, and maybe the odd article like this one from the Guardian about someone’s experience there on a humanitarian mission. It’s not a country that get’s a lot of tourist traffic. Most of the visitors there are working or volunteering...
I had a pretty good idea of what to expect when I went to Mexico. I do a lot of research before I jump into a new country – generally. I knew the food would be delicious, the weather would be great, and the parties would stretch into the wee hours. No matter how much you read and research though, you’ll never get a true sense of a country until you step foot on...
I never intended on being a writer – it’s something that just sort of happened out of necessity. Funds were running low in Mexico and I needed to find an additional source of income. Teaching English online was making me money while travelling, but I was spending more than I was bringing in. I needed to find more work. I started applying for some freelance...