I revel in the queue these days. Lines speak to me. New driver’s license, new medicare card, wait for a flight to arrive, wait to exchange my krone back to dollars. I get to go through it all over again, as slowly as possible. I…
Small town India is a funny place. In Bundi, rough population 80,000, the white tourist population was six; the blonde tourist population was one. In places like Darjeeling and Pushkar, local vacation and pilgrimage towns, many of the Indian visitors have never met a foreigner…
Click here to read the full magazine article by Maya Pankalla featured in the June / July 2013 issue of Our Canada magazine.
The motorbike. The symbol of Vietnam. The country's utmost point of pride. “90 million people live in Vietnam today, and we have 55 million motorbikes,” one tour operator exclaims. “9 million people live in Saigon. And can you guess the number of motorbikes? Nearly 7…
Ko Phi Phi’s beauty is more than emerald water deep – the endless mid afternoom procession that color the back streets of the tourist ghetto highlight this party isle’s fascinating diversity: A man pushing a cart filled with garbage bags. Another pushes backpacks and…
To describe Singapore in one word wouldn’t truly do it justice. Nor would a sentence, or even a paragraph really. In fact, I’m not exactly sure how I feel about Singapore, other than that, relative to the one other place we’ve been to thus far,…
What a difference a day makes. After a 14 hour connecting flight through Beijing, my first move as a savvy backpacker is to totter up to the transit information booth, cut in front of another group of travelers, and exclaim “How much is the bus…
Well here we go! After spending the last three days obsessively obsessing over each detail of this website, it is finally ready. By ready we of course mean a tentative draft. But it’ll do, for now. The plane leaves tomorrow evening at 8:30pm – a…
