Because I am mostly a tag-along traveller, I often don’t choose the places I visit. That suits me fine because Steve’s business travel often takes us places I would have never picked myself, and many of those destinations turn out [...]
Steve and I have visited many stunning places in the world as a result of his globetrotting job. Many of Steve’s international colleagues have welcomed us to their cities, favourite restaurants, and other attractions, which makes tagging along extra fun [...]
There are lots of ways to travel: from cruising to camping, all-inclusive resorts to backpacking. Our travel style as somewhere between luxe and adventure. Most often we steer away from the “must-do” attractions at a destination. Steve’s work travel has [...]
Travellers who love using Airbnb to get a feel for what it would be like to live in a place now have another option to immerse themselves in local culture. A couple of years ago, the short-term rental company launched [...]
Usually, when I tag along on Steve’s business travel, we spend most evenings together. His recent trip to Columbus, however, would be a weekend full of work commitments. We’d spend time together the first night, and that was about it. [...]
For two weeks every July for the past 27 years, theatre companies from across Canada and around the world converge at the geographic centre of North America for the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival. This year will see 180 companies perform [...]
Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore) is a place in transition. Its rapidly soaring tech industry is rising around the city’s fragile infrastructure and a multitude of citizens living in poverty. My tag along trip with Steve, who was teaching a couple of [...]
Hoi An is known for its romantic, lantern-lit streets, riverside restaurants, and tailor shops that will design made-to-measure clothing at rates and with a turnaround time impossible for a North American to imagine. We were looking forward to this stop [...]
Hanoi marked the first stop on our April Islandhopping bike, boat, and kayaking tour of Vietnam. Our drive from the airport to our hotel in the Old Quarter introduced us to a city teeming with activity and overrun with a [...]