Every time you travel it’s different. Weather can affect your travel in so many different ways. Rain can cancel an outdoor activity, a beautiful day can make for great pictures or just to have fun and go swimming but if the weather is rainy, cloudy with storms you may need to alter your plans.
The Footage I Lost in Victoria (And What It Taught Me About Travel) Three years back, I’m standing in Victoria, BC with my Sony and a dead backup drive. The entire first week of footage—gone. Not corrupted. Just… gone. I’d been so focused on getting the perfect shots of the Inner Harbour at golden hour … 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
The Ultimate Business Shoes Guide For Traveling – Why is it so hard to find dress shoes well-suited for the professional polish and rigors of a company trip, yet versatile enough to be dressed down after a hard day’s work at the hotel bar? And why are so numerous of the options so very cringeworthy, awfully for women? Great…
Why You Should Travel With Just A Backpack: Are you the type of person who seems to always get the shopping cart with a wheel that has a mind of its own? Now imagine if that was your suitcase. Not much fun is it? You can’t be stealthy when everybody around you can hear the thumping and rattling of your suitcase. Note: There are a few affiliate links sprinkled throughout this article.…
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 Day Southwest Killed “Bags Fly Free” May 2025. I’m standing at gate B22 in Las Vegas watching a 62-year-old woman argue with a gate agent about a $35 charge she didn’t see coming. “Southwest never charges for bags,” she keeps saying. The agent just shrugs. “New policy, ma’am. Started three weeks ago.” Behind her, … Read more
Travel Smart & Save Money Last March, I landed in Bangkok with $47 in my checking account. Not ideal. Especially when I had a three-month shoot scheduled across Southeast Asia. But here’s the thing—I’d been here before. Years of traveling for film projects taught me something most travel blogs won’t tell you: the expensive mistakes … Read more
The Night I Almost Lost Everything in Prague Three years ago, I was shooting B-roll for a travel documentary in Prague’s Old Town. My camera bag sat next to me at an outdoor café—right next to me—while I reviewed footage on my laptop. I looked down for maybe thirty seconds to adjust a color grade. … 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
How to Become a Travel Filmmaker: The Guide Nobody Tells You About I still remember sitting in a cramped hotel room in Thailand at 3 AM, battling corrupted footage from my first paid travel gig. The client wanted their promo video in 48 hours. My camera had overheated during the most crucial interview. And I … Read more