Totally went to the North Pole on Friday night.
(via santotomas)
i haven’t paid tumblr much attention for the past three weeks, it’s been a battle of big decisions and everything but the Twitter account that has got me to where i am now was set aside.
three weeks ago i interviewed with the president of a company i’d been DYING to work for - so much so that i made a website pleading my case for the opportunity to win the ‘coolest travel intern’ spot. when he offered it to me on the spot, i hurled myself into a panic.
since then, i have quit my cozy salaried job at a place i’d work at for over five years (hello, coffee land) and literally LEAPED into this intern spot which has only guaranteed three months of an income so far. but you know what, it feels like it’s worth it. i followed my gut for once in a long while and it feels great. cheers to beer o’clock!
i must say i’m pretty envious of all those working beside me that are heading on trips soon - the Galapagos Islands, sailing in Thailand, South Africa, Laos and Vietnam, etc. hopefully, that will be me someday.
woohoooooooo!
cats with blogs. TOTALLY!
Woops. This one isn’t. I wish.
Me a year ago.
weeeee!!!
(via artmonamour)
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MUST HAVE THAT SHIRT IN THE FRONT. veronica, may have to send you on a bondi mission. just kidding. (photo via hayley)
In a stormy sea of aggressive carpet salesmen in Marrakesh, Morocco, this sleeping man provided welcome calm. Everywhere else, my wife and I were harassed by peddlers who acted as though saying “no” was the gravest insult possible.
via Pictory ‘a showcase for people around the world to document their lives and cultures’.
Flesh & Bones (via Amir VII)
“Leaving aside the people who have severely limited access to food and clean drinking water, so many people I knew, both in New York and elsewhere in the world’s go-fast consumer culture, were dissatisfied with the lives they had worked to get-the lives they were suppose to want.
Many of us work so hard that we don’t get to spend enough time with the people we love, and so we feel isolated. We don’t really believe in our work, and so we feel prostituted. The boss has no need of our most creative talents, and so we feel unfulfilled. We have too little connection with something bigger, and so we have no sense of meaning.
Those of us lucky enough to be well compensated for these sacrifices get to distract ourselves with expensive toys and adventures big cars and boats and plasma TVs and world travel in airplanes. But while the consolation prizes temporarily divert us from our dissatisfaction, they never actually take it away.
And, to top it all off, I thought in the elevator on that unseasonably warm day, not only have so many of us discovered that we’ve been working our years away to maintain a way of life that we don’t really like, but we are waking up to the fact-I hope-that this same way of life is killing the planet. Thanks to global warming, we hear, the planet is facing, among other things, plagues of malaria, monsoons and hurricanes with unprecedented power and frequency, and a rise in sea level that will cause widespread destruction of people’s homelands.
What things to have to think about.”- Colin Beavan, “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”
Toronto Escapes November Without Snowfall, But It Won’t Be Long Now…
First November in 162 years without snow!