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I’m human… not bots or AI here. I started this blog decades ago and used it to develop my skill as a writer while satisfying an insatiable need to explore. I still travel but stopped blogging about it when the internet became a cesspool of trolls and AI generated spam–fuelled by ad revenue, politics and scams. <\/p>\n

I now write fiction… because it’s hard, complicated and uses imagination. Blessings to everyone who has found there way to this tiny piece of blogging history.<\/p>\n

I promise to keep the device graveyard updated.<\/p>\n

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Travel, travel, travel. I love new places, new smells, new food, new people, new stories, new experiences, and the list goes on. Fortunately, I have<\/strike> had a job that gives<\/strike> gave me the opportunity to travel around the world and live in different cities. Unfortunately, having a Ni\u00f1a<\/em> doesn’t make travel and relocation easy. But she adapts fairly well and is beginning to appreciate extraordinary life experiences. I just wish I had her ability to rapidly overcome jetlag.<\/p>\n

About this site:<\/strong> this site (or some rendition of it) has been around for most of the 2000s; it was in 2007 while on a trip to New York that I was inspired to start writing about travel. Days later wend.ca\/travelgeek.ca was born.<\/p>\n

About me:<\/strong> I’m Canadian (a.k.a. Canuck)… was born in “Upper Canada” (Ontario), spent most of my childhood buried under snow in the Maritimes (Nova Scotia), went to school in Alberta (and got stuck there), lived in the United States… Europe… India… UK. I have university degrees in History\/English, Archaeology\/Anthropology, and part of a Cinema, Television, Stage, Radio and Multimedia (CTSRM) diploma.<\/p>\n

I’m a swimmer. Always have been. Always will be. This means that I can be cold, wet, miserable, in pain, starving to death… and still keep going. That’s what swimmers do.<\/p>\n

Jobs I’ve had include working as a lifeguard, police research assistant, fitness instructor, archaeologist, geek, photographer, writer, and a berry picker. Believe me, you don’t know hell until you’ve mucked around in mud and berries for an entire summer.<\/p>\n

I believe in finding ways to help others be awesome. This includes helping with research and genealogy. My superpower is finding things and people (like here<\/a>). Feel free to reach out to hello@wend.ca to start a conversation! Please don’t suck!<\/p>\n

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