About this site

This site will document my experiences as I start travelling again for the first time since the worldwide COVID pandemic began.  

It will have tips, guides, thoughts and stories from all the places I visit.

I hope that it can become a useful resource for another traveller out there.

I've never blogged about anything before, so it feels a bit weird.  It's like talking to yourself.  Kind of nice though. Almost therapeutic.

A bit about myself and past travels

I'm Canadian, but haven't been living in Canada full time since about 2014.

I've lived and worked in a few different countries since then.  To support myself financially, I've done various seasonal jobs, online businesses, and am recently working remotely as a  freelance web developer.

Here's some of my personal travel/nomad log (not in chronological order at all).

• Multiple trips to Japan.  Also lived there for over one full year on a working holiday.  One of my favourite countries.  Did three winter seasons working/playing at various ski resorts.  One summer working on a dive boat in Okinawa.  Got a super tan.  
• Two years in and out of Taiwan.  Studied Chinese for about 9 months.  Made great friends. Remaining time was spent mainly just having fun, and using it as my base for travelling to some other nearby places (i.e. Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong).
• Two month backpacking trip through Western Europe.  Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, and England.  They sure do love their churches in Europe.  Pretty stereotypical backpacker/sightseeing trip, but still lots of fun.
• Two separate trips of 3 months each in China.  First trip, studied Chinese in Beijing, and lived with a a local family.  Second trip, travelled from Guangdong to Guangxi, then through Yunnan, and up to Sichuan.  Both times, I met really great friends, and had probably the best travel experiences in my life.
• Thailand and Singapore for 3 weeks with one of my close friends.  Was one of my first big overseas trips, and was probably what got the travel bug started.
• Three and half years in New Zealand with my girlfriend.  Mostly on the South Island.  One and a half years by choice; the rest because of Covid.  New Zealand is a really nice place, and super photogenic, but 3.5 years was a bit long. I think I need to leave before I can properly reflect on it all.

About the name "Nimbus Nomad"

One of my favourite shows as a kid was Dragonball. (Actually, it's still one of my favourites.)

In this show, the main character Goku sometimes travels around on a cloud called the "Flying Nimbus".  

I thought to myself, "Man, wouldn't it be cool to fly around on a cloud to go wherever you want."  Thus, the name of this site is called "Nimbus Nomad".

Website details

• This website uses Ghost blogging software with Casper theme
• Hosted on Vultr
• Homepage photo by @sashafreemind

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