I’m still here 🙂 . I’ve now been writing on this blog for 8 years and it continues to be the longest running hobby I’ve ever had. So with the anniversary of penning my first words for this blog, I like to reflect on the past year and if I’ve learned anything new about writing. So let’s get into what I learned in the last 12 months! Continue reading “Lessons Learned After 8 Years Of Blog Writing”
And just like that, 2022 was at an end… Weird 🙂 . 2022 was filled with so much travel, food and fun that it seemed to fly by. Years used to feel a bit infinite, but now they’re whizzing past. I’m glad I have these posts to look back on and remember what I did with that time 🙂 . So let’s see what I got up to during the last month of 2022!
Continue reading “The Month Of Holiday Cheer: December 2022 Recap”
I find it a little bit cruel that we ask children what they want to be when they grow up. Maybe it’s my pessimism, but asking a kid what they would most like to do only for them to have the facts of the world slap them in the face down the line, messed me up a bit 🙂 . However, I may be an outlier. Continue reading “How Retirement Allows Me To Live My Childhood Dreams”
I’ve always been fascinated by languages. In my youth I declared that I wanted to speak at least 10 of them. Unfortunately after several years studying French in school and barely being able to order ice cream in Paris, I accepted that languages do not come particularly easily to me. So I had to change my approach 🙂 . Continue reading “From 0% to Fluent: How I Learned Spanish in 1 Year”
Throughout the year, I like to jot down new things I’ve learned, read, watched and experienced to try and remember what each year entailed. I then summarize all of that in my annual goals and accomplishments posts. The goal of these posts is not just to curate what I’ve been up to, but also to document how I have changed from one year to the next and how I’ve grown as a person. Continue reading “The Year Of Spanish: 2022 Goals & Accomplishments”
As the title suggests, I spent this month in Argentina! It’s the farthest south I’ve ever been in the world. As a comparison, Buenos Aires has a similar longitude to Sydney, Australia as well as Auckland, New Zealand and Cape Town, South Africa. Continue reading “The Month Of Argentina: November 2022 Recap”
Up to this point in my life, I haven’t had the pleasure of exploring a lot of South America. I spent two weeks in Ecuador in 2018 and went to Aruba once in college, but that’s it. One of my best friends is from Argentina and moved back after the first year of my career. I hadn’t seen her in person since. So we set out to change that! Continue reading “Slow Travel Review: Buenos Aires, Argentina – The Land Of Nature and Architecture”
I was very curious when approaching retirement to see what kind of retiree I would be. Some people say that in early retirement they’re in the best shape of their lives and others seem to lean more into an “every day is a vacation” mindset aka “what’s a vegetable?” 😉 . So I was simply curious. And like most things in my life, the answer seems to be: it’s complicated 🙂 . Let’s get into it. Continue reading “How My Diet And Fitness Changed In Retirement”