Freelance Writer
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal “All right, brain. You don’t like me and I don’t like you, but let’s just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.” Homer Simpson “It’s a DEAL!” Homer Simpson’s brain I’d just arrived…
I came across the word ‘sonder’ recently in the wonderful Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. sonder n. “the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness”. Apparently it’s noun, though I’d use it the same way…
In trying to figure out who we are, we often cling to where we’re from – though that can change depending on who you’re with
About why I run and why I travel, and how I had the brainwave to combine the two by completing the Vietnam Mountain Marathon in Sapa in September 2018.
For those new to riding a motorbike, it’s reasonable to expect that sticking to the main road would be enough of an adventure for one trip. But it’s actually a horrible, polluted, traffic-congested route, which is only getting worse as the country develops at such a rapid rate. It’s actually probably a bit safer to stray off the beaten path a little.