Life happens and sometimes you just have to get away. Yours truly, your favorite travel blogger has recently taken some much-needed time off from work to decompress and do a bit of soul searching. But in reality that means I’ve been traveling all over the world for about a month now visiting friends and family as I go! It’s been fantastic but maybe it’s time to start catching up on a few things…
The Hook It’s 3:47 AM on a beach in White Rock, BC. I’m rigging a GoPro to a homemade slider for Going Home, my 2024 short that would later screen at the Soho International Film Festival. The ocean’s louder than I expected. The Hero 12 Black I’m using keeps fogging because I didn’t account for … Read more
The Hook: The Night the Rain Made Us Better September 2022. Cathedral Grove, Vancouver Island. We were 40 kilometers from anything resembling a charging port, three months into pre-production on The Camping Discovery, and the rain came sideways out of nowhere. Golden hour: gone. Six crew members: useless. Permits and location scouts: wasted. My AC … Read more
The Suitcase That Almost Ruined My Film Project Last summer, I flew to Iceland to shoot exterior sequences for “Par in the Fjords.” I’d packed all my camera accessories—lens filters, batteries, memory cards—into a budget suitcase I’d grabbed off Amazon. Figured it would be fine. It wasn’t fine. Somewhere between Vancouver and Reykjavik, a zipper … Read more
Budget Breakdown: What You’ll Actually Spend {#budget-breakdown} Let’s cut through the noise. Here’s what travel vlogging gear actually costs in 2025: Beginner Setup: $500-800 Perfect for your first trip or testing if vlogging is for you. Camera: $400-600 Audio: $50-100 Stabilization: $30-50 Accessories: $50-100 Intermediate Setup: $1500-2500 For creators ready to upgrade quality without breaking … Read more
Pack Like You Mean It: The No-BS Minimalist Packing Guide for Digital Nomads Who Actually Travel Three flights in Bangkok. That’s when I learned. I was dragging two camera bags, a rolling suitcase, and a “personal item” that weighed more than some toddlers through Suvarnabhumi Airport at 2 AM. My back was screaming. My shoulder … Read more
The Terminal C Panic That Taught Me Everything Toronto Airport. 5:47 a.m. I’m speed-walking through Terminal 1 with two Pelican 1510 cases—one stuffed with $22,000 in camera bodies and lenses, the other packed with batteries, monitors, and hard drives containing the only existing footage from our “Going Home” shoot. Gate closes in 11 minutes. My … Read more
The 4 AM Wake-Up Call I’m standing in a freezing parking lot in rural British Columbia at 4 AM, loading gear into a rental car for a 12-hour documentary shoot. My back already hurts just looking at the pile of equipment. Camera body, lenses, tripod, audio gear, batteries, lights—the list goes on. By hour six, … Read more
Travel Camera Gear Intro I was standing in Bangkok’s Khao San Road, sweating through my shirt, when a tourist asked to borrow my camera. He wanted one shot of the sunset. I handed him my Sony A7III with the 24-70mm attached—about $4,000 worth of gear. He fumbled with it for thirty seconds, gave up, and … Read more
Why This Guide Is Different: Tested by a Hotel Pro, Filmmaker, and Globe-Trotter I’ve seen travel disasters from three perspectives—and that’s what makes this guide unique: Hotel Insider Perspective: As a four-star hotel doorman, I’ve handled guests arriving at 3 AM with broken luggage, dead phones, or misplaced passports. I know what fails—and what actually … Read more