Inspiring Adventure For All
Standing on the top of Castelo de Sao Jorge in Lisbon or at the entrance to Guell Palace in Barcelona or on the balcony of our hotel room in Cannes looking down at the Mediterranean Sea, I felt liberated to have gotten to that point, solo with my kids. As far as solo parent vacations,…
I love telling stories in the vein of American Pie. You know the way Michelle starts to tell Jim about her one time at band camp and what she does with the flute. It’s a really corny thing that I do. So on that note (no, no flutes are involved in this story), if you…
I was diagnosed in 2013 with hypothyroidism and then subsequently with Hastimotos, an auto-immune disorder a couple months later. I was so distressed that managing hypothyroidism while travelling would be a big issue. Hashimoto’s disease is a condition in which your immune system attacks your thyroid, a small gland at the base of your neck below…
Back in the fall of 2017, I took off on my family for a few days to do some solo travel and went to the most bizarre places. I visited places my kids would never go to with me – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, with a side excursion north of Prince Albert, and Edmonton, Alberta. Neither place…
Every so often, I get to getaway by myself or just with girlfriends. I get to go to conferences out of the city/province/country and it’s amazing when I’m not working. I’m pretty damn lucky to be able to do that because I know not everyone can. Any and all peace and quiet to myself is…
