I have to admit: the first time I thought about planning my own trip, I imagined it to be out of my budget. I was right, in a sense; I was about 11 years old, and the price for flights from Canada to the Amazon had a lot of zeros in it. How would I … Continue reading
As a kid, my passport always seemed to be some elusive packet of paper that my parents liked to hide from me. Well, so it appeared, until we made our regular way down south, to the country I still never really feel like a foreigner in (the United States, that is). Those days, I never … Continue reading
Not being able to travel to any European destination was a difficult pill to swallow about a year ago. However, what has been even more difficult to deal with has been having a ticket to visit a major European city and not actually being able to get on the plane that would take me there. … Continue reading
They call us the “unlucky” generation – by “they”, I mean the same people who now claim Europe (Greece in particular) is going nowhere but down from here on out. These pessimistic, almost insulting, group make up a great deal of the media elite, feeding us with information that only makes us feel worse. Now, … Continue reading
The Rooted Traveller 