The Life Of A Permanent Nomad
It might sound unbelievable but I’ve actually traveled the world for 18 years without doing anything special. When I started my travels in 1999, I was about as much of an ultra-budget backpacker as one could possibly be. All of my simple belongings easily fit into my original 44 liter durable Kelty Redwing backpack, to begin with. Combine that with …
A guide to Mauritius for those looking for a different kind of travel experience… For 3 weeks we stayed on this island. We spent one week in the small beach town of Flic en Flac and then we rented an apartment for two weeks in the smaller beach town of Trou aux Biches, towards the north. This marked the fourth …
With the second episode of my new travel video series, I find myself high up on a rock in Mauritius, staring out at one of the most impressive landscapes I’ve ever come across in all my travels. We were hiking up the peninsula known as Le Morne when we suddenly decided to walk down a random path that veered off …
A couple of months ago, when I asked readers of Wandering Earl what you wanted to see more of from me, the top response was “more videos and podcasts”. It’s now time for me to start doing just that! I am happy to introduce my new series – “Welcome to My Life of Travel“. Here’s the intro video I just …
In March, as many of you might have known from my recent blog and social media posts, I traveled to my dream destination for my 40th birthday. That dream destination was the Seychelles, a tiny nation in the Indian Ocean consisting of 115 islands and home to only 89,000 people. I’ll come right out and say it…if you don’t have …
A trip to Zanzibar…that exotic, mysterious land. Never did I think I would make it to this island off the coast of mainland Tanzania but somehow, like most of my travels, it just happened. After bouncing around Kenya and Tanzania for a while, it was time to take it easy and catch up on work, and Zanzibar seemed like a …
We pushed open a massive wooden door and found ourselves in a small, dark room. A middle-aged man was sound asleep in a plastic chair behind a dusty wooden desk. He woke up to the creak of the door as it closed and without hesitation grumpily blurted out, “Tickets here”. He told us that two tickets cost 16000 TSH ($8 …
On March 31st, I shall turn 40 years old. And tomorrow I’m off to my dream destination. When it comes to turning 40, I’m all good. Of course, there’s always a chance that the clock will strike midnight on that day and I’ll have a breakdown, then head off to Ibiza, pluck the first few gray hairs from my head, …
Our Masai Mara safari… …it was a safari like no other, way off in the middle of nowhere Kenya, in the low season with few other travelers around, and with plenty of wildlife to spot out in the hills, in the open savannas, in the ponds and rivers and hidden among the low, thick trees. For three days and two …
There I am. I’m sitting on the balcony of a beautiful wood cabin, staring out into the wilderness, listening to the sound of elephants roaring somewhere at the foot of the nearby hill. Flashes of lions and giraffes and cheetahs and black rhinos and warthogs appear in my head. Flashes of massive green mountains and never-ending savannas dotted with wildebeest, …
