The Journey of a Friendly Giant

It's very rare that your first time traveling will be your only time. Once exposed to the exciting and unpredictable newness that often comes with leaving home, the chances of you making more travel plans are very high. What I enjoy most about traveling is the reminder it gives me that life comes in different colours, flavours, tastes and smells. Traveling also does a wonderful job in teaching lessons of humility and tolerance of different ways to live life. I'm no rookie to the traveling game, my travel bug has become more of a monster; I've lived in over 5 countries and visited over 25 in my lifetime so far. In fact, this blog originated as a travel blog for an international internship I was fortunate enough to experience with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). I wouldn't be the person I am today without having traveled as much as I have, and I hope my now 14 month old (already!?) can say the same one day. Needless to say however, like most thi...

It's been a while, but my return to the world of blogging was inevitable because, if you haven't noticed from my previous posts, I really enjoyed it, however, life has a sneaky way of getting in the way of the things that I enjoy the most sometimes. Take art for example, I used to dedicate every single Sunday to painting, drawing, reading and writing. However getting married, moving into my first home, buying a new car, starting a few new jobs etc. . . Has influenced me to spend my spare time in different ways. Thus, instead of " wasting my time " doing art on Sundays, they were spent doing chores around the house; grocery shopping; planning meals for the week; and ensuring that my magic schedule, that somehow allows me to juggle 3 jobs at once, still made half-sense.  With that small change, I found myself losing a part of myself that I loved. The artist in me was slowly dying, and it wasn't until I started explaining to a friend of mine, WHY I loved writi...