Ottawa, Canada (January 2019)
“I may have not gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I need to be.”
– Douglas Adams
Where I Need To Be
Inspiration, TravelInspiration
Grateful For Perspective
Inspiration, Travel
Parliament Hill, Ottawa (January 2019)
“I love being Canadian. I think growing up in Canada gives you a world perspective that I can certainly enjoy.”
– Ryan Gosling
Write Each Moment
Inspiration, Travel
Cinnamon Ridge, Kamloops, British Columbia (January 2019)
“Tomorrow is the first page of a 365 page book. Write a good one.”
– Brad Paisley
Recreate & Repeat
Inspiration, Travel
Mont Royal, Montreal, Quebec (December 2018)
“Document the moments where you are most in love with yourself – what you are wearing, who you are around, what you are doing. Recreate and repeat.”
– Warsan Shire
And Then It Happens
Travel
Machu Picchu, Peru (December 2018)
“And then it happens.
One day, you wake up and you’re in this place where everything feels right.
Your heart is calm.
Your soul is lit.
Your thoughts are positive.
Your vision is clear.
You’re at peace, at peace with where you’ve been.
At peace with what you’ve been through –
And at peace with where you’re headed.”
– Unknown
Ordinary Becomes Extraordinary
Travel
Agua Calientes, Machu Picchu, Peru (December 2018)
“The beauty about travel is that someone’s ordinary becomes your extraordinary.”
– Unknown
Stop And Look Around
Travel
Cusco, Peru (November 2018)
“Because when you stop and look around, you’ll find that life is actually pretty amazing.”
– Unknown
What A Mountain Person Understands
Inspiration, Travel
Nub Peak, Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park, British Columbia (September 2018)
“When you are a mountain person, you understand the brilliance and beauty of contradiction. The way land can be your greatest teacher. How something can be both grounding, yet elevating, intoxicating yet soothing, wild yet serene, intensely primal, yet patient, and cycling yet predictable within shifts and rhythms. Mountains keep us on edge and wrap us up in safety all at once. I don’t know of anything sweeter or more magic inducing than that.”
– Victoria Erickson
Some People Are Hostels, Others Are Homes
Inspiration, Travel
Black Diamond, Alberta (September 2018)
“By all means, go out into the world and explore. Kiss strangers, kiss friends. Fall in and out of love until your hands and heart are libraries of all the people they have touched. Before long we learn, right down to our bones, that some people are hostels and others are homes.”
– Beau Taplin
Why I Travel
Events, Inspiration, Travel
Skookum Music Festival, Vancouver, British Columbia (September 2018)
“I travel because I need to. …Because my wild, adventurous spirit can’t live according to the ‘norm’. I travel to regroup, to reinvent myself. To be the best me I can be. To find joy in the ordinary and peace in exploring. I travel to just be.”
– Unknown
More & More To Become
Inspiration, Travel
Shambhala Music Festival, Salmo, British Columbia (August 2018)
“Who you are right now is the culimination of years of editing and becoming. And you’re not done yet. No, not even close. You have more and more to become.”
– Liz Milani
Choosing To Rebuild
Inspiration, Travel
Mount Rohr, Lillooet, British Columbia (August 2018)
“There is nothing more powerful or radical or stunningly beautiful than a woman who chooses to rebuild her life day after day after day. No matter how many pieces there are to pick up or how many mistakes she must spin into gold.”
– Carol Leybe
Simply Fall In Love With Life
Inspiration, Travel
Sicamous, British Columbia (July 2018)
“You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude and acceptance. You will change the world by just being a warm, kind hearted human being.”
– Anita Krizzen
The Sound Of Music
Inspiration, Travel
Sicamous, British Columbia (July 2018)
“The earth has music for those who will listen.”
– Shakespeare
Notice The Little Things
Inspiration, Travel
Enderby Cliffs, Enderby, British Columbia (May 2018)
“May you always be the one who notices the little things that make the light pour through, and may they always remind you that there is more to life and there is more to you.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
Sound Of My Feet
Inspiration, Travel
Jones Lake, Hope, British Columbia (May 2018)
“I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away
from things that were not meant for me.”
– Unknown
Life Should Be A Celebration
Events, Inspiration
Snowbombing Canada, Sun Peaks Resort (April 2018)
“Life should be a continual celebration. A festival of lights, all year round. Only then, can you grow up, can you blossom.”
– Rajneesh
The Right Track
Inspiration, Travel
Moul Falls, Wells Gray Provincial Park (February 2018)
“If you are too comfortable, it’s time to move on. Terrified of what’s next? Well, then you are on the right track.”
– Susan Falls-Hill
Hopeful Symptoms
Inspiration, Travel
Harper Mountain, British Columbia (January 2018)
“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.”
– Anges Repplier
A World I Want To Live In
Inspiration, Travel
Hoegarth Lakes, Kananaskis Country (December 2017)
“I just want to live in a world of mountains, coffee,
campfire, cabins, and golden trees, and run around with a camera
and a notebook, learning the inner workings of everything real.”
– Victoria Erickson
Adventure On The Wind
Inspiration, Travel
Albas Falls Provincial Park, Shuswap Area (October 2017)
“A storm was coming, but that is not what she felt. It was an adventure on the wind and it shivered down her spine.”
– Atticus
Note To Self
Inspiration, Travel
Mount Peter, Kamloops, British Columbia (October 2017)
“I am going to be that girl who wakes up with purpose and intent. I am going to be that girl who shows up and never gives up. That girl who believes anything is possible and is willing to work for it.”
– Unknown
At The End Of The Day
Inspiration, Travel
Near Dunn Peak, British Columbia (October 2017)
“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy, and your eyes sparkling.”
– Shanti
That’s Why We Dare
Inspiration, Travel
Mount Paul, Kamloops, British Columbia (September 2017)
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains, or swim in oceans – because we can. We have some impulse in us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we dare to paint, why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.”
– Maya Angelou
Kindred Spirits
Inspiration, Travel
Willow Point, Victoria, British Columbia (September 2017)
“I like people who get excited about the change of seasons, the sound of an ocean, watching a sunset, the smell of rain and a starry night.”
– Brooke Hampton
Photo Credit: Katie Kershaw Photography
Make Your Soul Dance
Inspiration, Travel
Lillooet, British Columbia (August 2017)
“I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body.”
– Dele Olanubi
Wash Your Spirit Clean
Inspiration, Travel
Yak Peak, British Columbia, Canada (August 2017)
“Keep nature close to your heart. …And break clear away once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”
– John Muir
The Greatest Gift
Inspiration
Harpers’ Trail Winery, Kamloops, British Columbia (August 2017)
“Truly the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.”
– Lao Tzu
Curious Mind
Inspiration, Travel
Zoa Peak, Fraser Valley, British Columbia (August 2017)
“Blessed are the curious, for they will have adventures.”
– Unknown
The Journey
Inspiration
Stoked Fest, Kamloops, British Columbia (August 2017)
“Yoga is the journey of the self, through the self, to the self.”
– The Bhagavad Gita
