Best Backpacking Equipment For Hiking
Down the years of backpacking the world, hiking became a big part of my journey. I have done hikes on every continent now, including a wacaday trip up Cuverville Island in Antarctica in 2010. Looking…
Sunday’s Disillusion: Sea-wind, Re-wind, Re-start, De-start, Re-tox, De-tox (2015 – 2023)
“Illusion never changed into something real” – Natalie Imbruglia. 8 years ago, August 2015 sits high in my life of memories. After a 3 month detox/retox, I went backpacking in Bangladesh, I was loving it!!…
Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Taking The #CB12testdays Challenge with my New Mouthwash – CB12!
You might have read that around 2 years ago, I visited a dentist in Hong Kong and had a few problems with my teeth. Well this month was dentist time again for me as I visited…
Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Using Slick VPN to Access The Internet Abroad
As I whackpacked my way through the Stan countries and India the last 4-5 months, there were some real challenging moments as an online worker. It was infuriating, I’ll be honest. I tore my hair…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: Losing Data, Backing up Data
Earlier in the year, I lost my travel photos for about the fourth or fifth time as well as 47 chapters of a book I’ve been working on. Did I back up my data? Yes…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: 3 Common Travel Accidents You Can Easily Avoid
Travelling to an unfamiliar place shouldn’t cause unnecessary anxiety. In fact, if you’re like most travellers, you’ll want to feel comfortable, have fun, and you’ll want to come back feeling refreshed. Having an accident while…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: Visiting the Dentist
The most important thing when we travel is of course health. It’s always number one. Without health we are bound to one place. Until this year, I had been relatively lucky in terms of dentist…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: Bus Bugs
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on Tuesday’s Travel Problems and the only real excuse for this is being occupied on other things, such as writing about getting visas, crossing borders, backpacking…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: Diarrhoea (Verbal, Chronic and Travellers)
Diarrhoea. This happens to everyone. Not just travellers. But moving countries, trying different cuisines and beverages takes its toll on your bowels and you end up with “traveller’s diarrhoea”. Otherwise known as “the shits”. I’ve…
Tuesday’s Travel Problems: How to deal with Soroche (Altitude Sickness)
Today on my ongoing series of Tuesday’s Travel Problems, I look at altitude sickness and the best ways to avoid it, deal with it and get through it. Altitude sickness is also known as soroche.…