It’s my own fault for traveling to almost exclusively capital cities but my entire time in Europe has been a sport in avoiding tourists. Here inside the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, I don’t know why I find myself surprised that so many visitors spend longer reading the descriptions, listening to their audio guides and [...]

Five days in Bergen flew. It helped that I was hung over for an entire one of those days. I’m sitting in the airport now waiting for my flight to Copenhagen (locally referred to as Kobenhavn). Watching the closed circuit televisions in the airport, it starkly reminds I didn’t pick the right continent for “let’s [...]

It’s 9am in middle of Norway. 3am back home in Atlanta. I’m on a train from Oslo to Bergen listening to Kings of Convenience, one of my favorite artists who happens to be native to Norway. The train is pretty high up the cliffs and we are looking down on a breathtaking river and another [...]

I’m sitting on a dock on Bjorvika staring across the water teeming with ducks and boats and Hovedoya, an island across from the main coast. I rented a bicycle courtesy of my Couchsurfing host through their public bike sharing program, Oslo Bysykkel (Clear Channel), and am exploring my final day in Oslo as far as [...]

Today I’m using my host’s bicycle sharing card to ride around Oslo and explore.

Our economy might be in pursuit of mediocrity because too many of us put what, why, and who makes us want to go into a fetal crouch, plug our ears, and bang our foreheads against our knees above, beyond, and before what, why, and who we love. – Umair Haque This article from the Harvard [...]

While traveling over the past two months, I have had a lot of time to think about “work.” Does a job have to be work? Should it be? I’ve lived my life up until this point under the idea that you should love what you spend your time and energy doing. There must be some [...]