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Halloumi Tacos, Better Things & an Insomnia Game
What to Eat, Watch and Do This Week
Mar 7
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Hotel Quirks & Perks: The Dramatic Sequel
Featuring Homemade Toilets, a Bali Escape Room and a French Toast-eating Cat
Feb 28
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Hotel Perks and Quirks Around the World
From an axe and wood pile to faux fur coats, fresh eggs and skateboards
Feb 21
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Get Back to Work!
How I Found a Home for my Curiosity at Harrowsmith Magazine
Feb 14
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A Postcard From Holbox Island, Mexico
The Official Bird, Beer, Burg and Book Report
Feb 7
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Home is the nicest word there is
Aug 17, 2024
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Fried Grasshoppers and Turtle Pyramids
Mar 30, 2024
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Jann Arden is Engaged!
Jan 10
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Dogs and Cats I Do Not Know
Jan 4, 2025
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Three Things Learned Over 500ml of Beer
Denmark’s last mailbox, an island in the Bay of Bengal that’s illegal to visit and Cyndi Lauper's stint as a wrestling manager
Jan 31
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Just Beachy: 12 Caribbean Islands You'll Want to Bolt to This Winter
From Antigua to St. Maarten with rum, rotis, Hemingway and wild donkeys in between!
Jan 17
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Jann Arden is Engaged!
Snowbanks and Marshmallows Across Canada Melt With the Announcement
Jan 10
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Dogs and Cats I Do Not Know: The Sequel!
A fluffy start to a hopefully not too hairy 2026!
Jan 3
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The Very Best of 2025
From Vietnamese egg coffee to being laid off to turtle hatching wake-up calls!
Dec 27, 2025
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My Year in Books: 2025's Top Shelf 30
From a bush pilot's memoir to the story of a Giant Pacific Octopus named Marcellus
Dec 20, 2025
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Tripping Over Our Travels
A Daunting Plan to Downsize Our Digital Trip Footprint(s)
Nov 29, 2025
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The Vacation Vortex: How We Landed Upon Isla Holbox
A Caribbean tailspin that (eventually) led us to a repurposed school bus hotel
Nov 22, 2025
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The Best of the Camino: Our Greatest Hits, Bits and Bites
An ode to painted weasels, chocolate truffle pizza and fetching border collies
Nov 1, 2025
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Bunk Bed Bingo on the Camino del Norte
What 31 Days of Budget and Bougie Stays in Spain Looks Like
Oct 25, 2025
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Double-knotted on Spain's Camino del Norte
A Snack-Sized Version of the 865km Surf &Turf Route
Oct 18, 2025
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A Pattern of Foxes
They've been following me in books, bottles and boardwalks
Oct 11, 2025
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Bathtub Book Club
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The Bathtub Book Club: Farmer Fantasies and Surfer Delusions
A unofficial analysis of reading patterns and a tub crawl
Mar 17, 2024
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The Bathtub Book Club: Eat a Peach
Let’s move away from impeachment talk for a moment.
Mar 17, 2024
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The Bathtub Book Club: Indians on Vacation
It was 1993 and I was livin’ the bohemian dream in Vancouver.
Mar 17, 2024
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The Bathtub Book Club: Earth Almanac
Once upon a time, I only fixated on one book at a time.
Mar 17, 2024
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The Bathtub Book Club: Jann Arden's If I Knew Then
Two years ago, Jann Arden agreed to write the foreword for my memoir and I almost fell off my bar stool without having had a thing to drink.
Mar 17, 2024
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