Wanderism Travel

I smoked opium once. I saw God.
They say God has many faces. In this instance, she took the form of an elderly Asian woman dressed head to toe in black. She hovered above me – a face creased with age, framed with straight gray hair and punctuated with a toothy, betel nut-stained smile. Who knew [...]

When most people think of heading out of Vancouver and down I-5 to Bellingham, they’re either focused on Seattle or have designs on cheap socks at the Bellis Fair Mall.
But there is a not-so-hidden gem of a destination, just off the interstate in Bellingham.
The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is located in the centre [...]

EXCLUSIVE TO WANDERISM – Woody Allen once said, “Man does not live by bread alone. Frequently there must be a beverage.”
Bread, in its myriad forms throughout the world, is a dietary staple, unless, of course, you find yourself in Southeast Asia. When I lived in Singapore the only Westernized version of bread I could [...]

The sun has been down for about an hour and a half and the temperature has dropped to a comfortable 30ºC. Palm trees rustle in a light tropical breeze as I walk down a dirt road, drawn, like a moth, to a bank of floodlights interrupting the night. Parked alongside the road are so many [...]

Note: There are several interesting and informative outbound URL links embedded within this story that will assist you in understanding both the catastrophic Mt. St. Helens event in 1980, and the area of Washington State’s gorgeous Skagit Valley as it exists today. We have eliminated the underlines for those URL links and shaded them [...]