Locationless Living

I almost remember the last weekend that I spent in Tenerife, the largest Canary Island. What I recall for certain is that I woke up on a Sunday morning with a powerful headache. I had to chase it away with a tall glass of fresh squeezed orange juice, and then try to piece together what [...]

December is an important time in Colombia with celebration after celebration. On December 1st for instance, many go out to a disco to celebrate…well, December. On that weeknight the clubs were packed and loads of fireworks were set off at midnight. Continuing with that theme another random day of the week the city of Medellin [...]

On September 20, 2007, I received an order for Helmut Lang – Cuiron cologne from my eCommerce store. The cologne was out of stock but I didn’t want his $226.67 to go to waste. Instead I called the customer to see whether a different sized cologne bottle might be an acceptable substitute. Hello Jeffrey, this [...]

Perhaps it’s just the little boy in me, but when I think about Hawaii, I also begin fantasizing about erupting volcanoes and molten lava. Luckily, in my trips to this island state, I’ve never gone away disappointed. At least on some of the islands, the lava is always flowing and always extremely hot. On my favorite [...]

Istanbul was established at the crossroads between European, Asian, African, and Middle Eastern cultures. As a result of this constant cross-pollenation encouraged by the vast Ottoman Empire which once used Istanbul as its capital – and before that, the Holy Roman Empire when it was called Constantinople – makes eating in this grand Turkish city [...]

I began writing this post last February during the first week of my full-time travels and living abroad. At the time I had recently graduated university and was just enjoying the beginning of what I had set out to do for many years. Pretty much non-stop travel was the goal and all of my efforts [...]