New hemisphere, New Passions, New opportunities – Vamos 2016!
For those who have been following along on the hippie van journey the past two and a half years, you may have noticed a slight decrease in posts as of late. As some of you will have seen via social media updates, the past few months I have been pursuing an idea for a platform […]
Hippie Van Man End Of Summer Update: BACK TO BRAZIL!
As many of you know via updates on Facebook as well as my blog post a couple months back; at the start of June I decided to fly back to Toronto, Canada to spend time with my family as my father was going through some health issues. I left the Hippie Van at a friend’s […]
Hippie Van Pan-American Adventure On Pause
You Can Take The Hippie Out Of The Van, But You Can’t Take The Hippie Out Of The Man I have been on the road now for just under two years. Living the van life, driving from Canada to South America in a 1979 VW Bus. I’ve met tons of awesome people and had more […]
Hippie Van Mans Favourite Pan American Road Trip Photos from 2014
What a year it has been! I started 2014 leaving Mexico heading South into Guatemala. Eventually I would end up all the way in Lima, Peru before flying home for the Holidays to end off the year with family and friends. I wanted to take a quick look back at some of my favorite travel […]
A Free-Flight Hitchhiking Adventure Home For The Holidays. A #HowToBudgetTravel
One of the things travel has really made me come to appreciate is family. In my 27-years I have only missed two December holidays with my family. The first time was in Goa, India, 2011 – two months into what would be an 11-month backpacking trip around South East Asia. The second time was this […]
Speaking with Seti Gershberg; Creator of Ayahuasca film: The Path Of The Sun
I met Seti Gershberg via an online Ayahuasca community. After reading about some of my Ayahuasca experiences which I shared, Seti got in touch with me to share the documentary he had just finished making about Ayahuasca. The Path of the Sun is a two-part documentary film, Ayahuasca Natures Greatest Gift and Q’ero Mystics of […]
Pan-American-Road Trip Adventure: Looking Back Over Year-1 Part 2
If you read part one of my 1-year recap of this Pan-American road trip adventure that I’m on, you will of course remember that we left off leaving Mexico just after New Years and heading in to Guatemala. I spent a few weeks in San Pedro, Lake Atitlan Guatemala. I found an awesome hotel called […]
Hippie Van Man 1-Year-Pan-American-Road-Trip Anniversary: Looking Back Part 1
Wow! Has it been a full 365 days already? It seems like it was yesterday that my 1979 Volkswagen Transporter (aka The Hippie Van) was packed to the brim with the gear of four people heading to Burning Man in Nevada, USA from Toronto Canada. Within the first two hours, due to complaints of one […]
Discoverying Ayahuasca (part 5) The Power of Silence
The last entry in my ‘Discovering Ayahuasca’ series, Passion in Purging, detailed my third encounter with Ayahuasca, which took place in mid-June 2014 an hour outside of Cali, Colombia. It was quite a night. Three weeks later, a friend who is doing her PHD on traditional medicine in South America, invited me to what would […]
Guest Post: Mental Health Tips For The Modern Traveller
Mental health is an area of health people often overlook. And when you travel, you are constantly out of your element, experiencing new places, people, norms and environments. This can be extremely rewarding, exciting and fun, but it can also take its toll on your mental health. I asked my friend Jaime, who is a […]