When I was a self-employed photographer, long weekends were some imaginary concept that I never experienced… In fact so were regular weekends. I never understood things like #humpday #tgif #patioweather… Even when I did work a regular 9 to 5 day job, I used to judge people that would come back from their weekends (long… Read More The great Canadian long weekend
After traveling over 4,000 kilometers, spending more than 46 hours on the road and riding for 6 days, I found myself back in a place I thought I left for good. I left my job as the editor of the Whitecourt Star and Mayerthorpe Freelancer in January 2017 and decided to travel the world a… Read More There and back again…
It was nearly three years ago now, and I have since been goose hunting with a gun. But that doesn’t mean the first time I went wasn’t fun. In September 2014, I had just finished my internship at the Whitecourt Star in Whitecourt, Alberta. When I moved to Alberta, I was surrounded by individuals and… Read More My first time goose hunting was with a camera, not a gun
If you’ve ever had Kashmiri chai at Remedy Cafe and think this is what they drink in Kashmir, brace yourself. If you order Kashmiri chai made by Kashmiris, it’s the exact opposite of what you might expect. Remedy Cafe is a nexus for Edmonton Hipsters. I went once and ordered a Kashmiri chai and ate… Read More Kashmiri chai
When I tell others about my first motorcycle road trip it sounds cool. I rode out to Jasper National Park, drank by a campfire, slept in a tent, met some European travelers and traded with them for Swiss chocolates, ate brunch in Jasper the next morning and rode home. You can’t talk about a road… Read More Murphy’s Law is real
I preached about how Turkish coffee was the Alpha and Omega of coffee in my last post. If it’s really as simple as I said it was, then explaining how to make it should be just as simple, right? Let’s have a crack at how to make the best cup of coffee you’ll ever have… Read More How to make the best cup of coffee in 3 simple steps
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world (tea is still king), and yet the majority of what you get in North America is essentially what I imagine Rockstar Games’ Pißwasser to taste like if it were real. Yet every (working) day, people guzzle litres of this stuff as though it’s some… Read More You have been drinking coffee the wrong way your whole life
I’m not lying with that headline. I actually did get a return on investments between 800% to 1,000%. It only took me nearly two decades… Actually the truth is it took between 50 to 58 years to get that rate of return, but my investment was only 15 to 20 of those years. What exactly… Read More I’m getting over 800% returns on my investments in 2017
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