This trip would be like no other. I say that because there were many reasons for this adventure. But the most important one was that my long-term girlfriend and I had decided, a year earlier, to get married. We made the decision together while floating in the warm azure waters off a beautiful sandy beach […]
Norway. Why would I want to go there? Simple: book research—a long time coming. To walk, drive and sail through lands steeped in myth and memory. To see with my own eyes the fjords, the forests, the wild oceans and the preserved remnants of Norse culture that have haunted my imagination for years. At first,
Flying into Bangkok at night was like gliding over a living circuit board. The city lights stretched forever—so wide and dense it felt like we’d never cross it, even at jet speed. Josée and I were wiped. We’d left Ottawa nearly 30 hours earlier, dragging ourselves through layovers and time zones. Luckily, we had a
Rubber hits the tarmac. The big metal bird touches earth again. The pilot slams the reverse thrusters, and we jolt forward as the brakes scream. I glance at my partner in crime beside me. She’s smiling. So am I. For her, it’s the heat—a wave of tropical warmth pressing against the cabin windows. For me,
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Travel. It’s always been the thread that ties us together. Funny thing is, fate tried to introduce us back in the early 2010s. We were both in Bali—same island, same time—but in different worlds. I was living and working there, and she was one of the countless tourists drifting through that land of gods and
Whales. I have mixed feelings about them. Majestic, otherworldly, and likely the custodians of some deep-sea intelligence we can’t even begin to fathom. Yet, years ago in Tokyo, I was in a tiny pit-stop sushi bar when I spotted a piece of deep-red meat glistening on the counter. I pointed at it, curious, and the