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Some Stuff I Liked in Portugal: A Rough and Tumble Guide
Culture, Europe, Travel Advice

Some Stuff I Liked in Portugal: A Rough and Tumble Guide

May 12, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 11 mins read

Portugal has made it onto just about every top travel list this year, and with good reason. I loved the month I spent there in […]

Give Me Loneliness (a poem for travelers and dreamers)
Europe, Poetry & Fiction

Give Me Loneliness (a poem for travelers and dreamers)

May 9, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Sagres, Portugal, early May. This past weekend, after a few wonderful weeks of travel and adventure with friends and family, I gave myself the gift of […]

The Girl Who was Afraid of Everything—Fiction
Adventure, Poetry & Fiction

The Girl Who was Afraid of Everything—Fiction

May 5, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 6 mins read

The Girl Who Was Afraid of Everything. (A break from the usual—story time!) *** Once there was a girl who was afraid of everything. She […]

When You Don’t Want to be Friendly and Open and Curious
Adventure, Europe, Nomadism, Travel Advice

When You Don’t Want to be Friendly and Open and Curious

April 29, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

That’s okay. It’s normal. Go ahead and hermit.   I stare resolutely out the window of my Uber at the windy Cape Town day, quite […]

The Rough and Wrinkled Side of Adventure
Adventure, Europe

The Rough and Wrinkled Side of Adventure

April 25, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

Sunday, 23 April. Porto, Portugal. Welcome to the world of unplanned adventure. It’s messy. It’s unphotogenic. It’s wild-ish. It’s kind-hearted French tourists warning you that […]

Some Things I Like (About Travel)
Europe

Some Things I Like (About Travel)

April 15, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 2 mins read

  Lisbon, Portugal. Saturday afternoon, somewhere far from the city center. I like this cafe, edged in fading sunlight, that flanks a nondescript park. I […]

The Strangeness
Adventure, Europe, Nomadism

The Strangeness

April 7, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

  “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” — Robert Louis Stevenson Sorry, Robert Stevenson, on two counts. First, […]

An Artist’s Statement, Kind of
Poetry & Fiction

An Artist’s Statement, Kind of

March 23, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 5 mins read

In addition to the travel, culture, and adventure writing I focus on here, I also dabble in poetry, fiction, and other creative writing. Through these […]

How I’m Overcoming the Tension of Teaching Storytelling in Africa
Africa, Culture

How I’m Overcoming the Tension of Teaching Storytelling in Africa

March 15, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 4 mins read

In my first workshop meeting, I share a TED Talk by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and she discusses how throughout history those in power—especially […]

The Wild-Tame Peculiarity of Safari (and 10 Wild Photos)
Adventure, Africa, Nature

The Wild-Tame Peculiarity of Safari (and 10 Wild Photos)

March 2, 2017May 22, 2020 Toby 3 mins read

Sabi Sand Game Reserve, Mpumalanga, South Africa A male leopard wakes from his nap and stretches lazily. Three safari cars—Land Rovers, I think—have parked just […]

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