I didn’t set out to write a travel blog. However this blog was started while I was an MBA student and I went on exchange to China. This was actually the third country in which I lived abroad as an expat, following Germany and Japan where I was a software developer and an English teacher respectively.
Having lived in Europe and Asia I’ve travelled those continents the most after North America. During my career in Canada I’ve worked and lived in: Victoria, Vancouver, Prince George, Yellow Knife, Calgary and Ottawa. You can of course read my resume, but if you really are interested in traveling this is the blog category for you.
After talking about it for many years I finally visited Scotland. Writing a series of blog posts on that trip is what inspired me to redo my taxonomy and focus my blogging exploits on the topics people are more interested in. So if you have questions or thoughts on where I’ve lived and traveled you can read this blog category or contact me using email or social media.
In 1992 I first visited Japan. I actually lived in Japan in the early 2000s. Then in 2016 I was invited to Japan again. So my trip in March of 2026 marks the fourth decade I have travelled to Japan…
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Two years after touring whisky distilleries in Scotland, and almost ten years after touring Yoichi Distillery in Hokkaido Japan, I returned to Japan to tour twelve more distilleries to learn more about how whisky, shochu and even gin is made…
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This is either the most anticipated portion of my trip to Japan or the least. I lived and worked in Toyohashi over twenty years ago as an English teacher. Now after I finally return the only person who still lives in Toyohashi, remembers me, and kept in touch is a bartender…
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Having landed in Tokyo, taken a brief sojourn to Chichibu and then travelled all over Kyushu with Rascal + Thorn, I said my “goodbyes” and travelled alone by train to Nara, Japan’s oldest capital…
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In March of 2026 I returned to Japan for the first time in decade. Although I landed in Tokyo and did visit other places, some famous, some not so famous, the bulk of my time this trip was spent in Kyushu…
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