The Travel Paradox
JL Orr | Paradox & Sea GlassThe Travel Paradox is a place to look closely at the contradictions, dilemmas, and ideological conundrums that arise from travelling with your eyes wide open.
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A place of serenity, a great loss, and a question of forgiveness
Today, I want to tell you about something I discovered on my travels last week. I spent 7 days in Esquimalt and Port Renfrew, on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
This is an example of how travel, and the places we find on our travels, c...
FROM THE ARCHIVES: In Alaska we ate baloney. In Iceland we ate cabbage.
Nothing new to see here….
Sorry. You get a 2025 re-tread this week, but I hope you will still enjoy it. You’ve probably never seen it before — it only got 57 views back in September.
I’m reissuing this one for two reasons:
- I’m...
Travelling on foot
It’s been 2 weeks of pretty awful air quality here in the Okanagan Valley. For a week the air was so bad we exceeded the scale. Turn it up to 11.
You can also listen to this article — I read it to you. If you are listening to an AI v...
Anticipation: How to travel when you are not travelling
It turns out that I have written a series of articles, mostly unintentionally, about ways to travel when you are not travelling. I decided I might as well embrace that.
You can listen to this post in my real, human voice. If you are l...
Armchair travels and other radical travel strategies
The other day I had an interesting ‘travel’ experience that got me thinking that there are many ways to travel.
You can listen to this article. Read by me. If you are hearing an AI voice… stop. Press play here.
I’ve already written...
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I ask a lot of questions about travel, exploration, and pursuing the good life. I write. Sometimes I find answers.
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