I was thankful to be living in a 'land of plenty' but I always knew I would be on the road again once the opportunity arose. While in school, I managed to save and escape to visit family and friends any chance I got but always remembering to come home and finish my studies. Now, as I am preparing for my next journey, I wanted to collect my memories of where I have been and heading to. Creating this blog will help me bring my past, present, and future travels on one page for those of you who are interested to follow. As I am packing my bag and heading to Australia in January 2010 hope you stick around and enjoy the road with me :-)
Additional info about my blog (2016): As time goes on, I have been less careful to stay on schedule with my posts. Therefore, my stories are not always in chronological order as you scroll down. BUT, if you look on the right margin, there is a word cloud with city/location names. If you click on a name, it should take you to a specific location with stories in chronological order.
While my authorship is very much in primitive state, I enjoy crafting up stories about my travels. If for nothing else, but having myself remember and re-live a few moments from my (life) journey which I seem to slowly forget as time goes by.
I have created the timeline below to give an outline of all the places I have lived in or visited so far. This might help in possibly finding a story of interest on those locations, though some might very well be sitting as a draft story awaiting to be published.
My Timeline:
1984 - Born in Oradea, Romania
1988 - Refugee to Budapest - Red Cross
1989 - Romanian communist regime was overthrown, and the boarders opened up
1989-1996 - School year in Budapest; summers with Nagyi in Oradea (moved about 8 times)
1990-1995 - Marcus and Dad lived in Rochester, NY (no internet at this time)
1995/96 - Our family reunited in Budapest (Dunakeszi to be exact)
1996 Aug 20 - Our family immigrates to Canada
2001 Mar - Florida Key's with Jessica's family
2003 - Grad trip to Dominican Republic
2003-2008 London, ON - undergrad studies at Western University
2004 - The very first time I travelled home, travelled alone, and fly alone :)
2005 - Visiting Vancouver: Erin and Marcus
2006 - Jessica visited Romania and Hungary
2007 - Visiting Vancouver: Erin and Marcus
2008 - Visiting Roxana in Texas
2009 - Living in Guelph; visited UK, Barcelona with Clara; home to visit Nagyi
2010 - Brisbane, Australia (Masters degree); Visiting Fiji (My 15 year old self was very happy)
2011 - Cape Town, South Africa - then Uganda - then Maputo, Mozambique - then Romania for Xmas
2012 - Red Lake, ON - then back to Brisbane ....and stayed there
2012-2014 - Living in Brissy (traveled to Fiji; home to Canada and Romania a few times)
2015 Jan to April - Uganda then West to East in Europe:
Uganda --> Amsterdam -> Dortmund -> Antwerp -> Ghent -> Brussels -> Luxembourg -> Paris -> Geneva -> Interlaken -> Baden -> Zurich -> Munich -> Prague -> Budapest -> Szeged -> Oradea
2015 May to Sept - Rankin Inlet, NU
2015 Nov - Vietnam
2015 - Iqaluit, NU
2016 - I have enjoyed many tours by ski, hike, boat and snowmobile in and around Iqaluit
2016 Sept - A week in Igloolik (above the 69th parallel)
2016 Oct - A weekend in Nuuk, Greenland
2016 Nov - conferences in Toronto, Florida and Ottawa
2017 Jan - Iceland --> Denmark --> not Finland (next time)
2017 Feb to Nov living in Nunavut - home in May, lots of skiing, snowmachine, bought my first honda (arctic cat) for summer driving
2017 Aug - Qikiqtarjuaq, Nunavut - with Arctic Kingdom (above the Arctic circle again)
2017 Oct - Pond Inlet (72 N)
2017 Nov - Sint Eustatius for diving and Budapest for introductions
2018 - January to April - Iqaluit
2018 - May to Sept - living in TO, visit Montreal, Romania for Vivi's wedding, visitors to TO...
2018 - Oct to Dec - Budapest, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Helsinki and Guelph
2019 - Iqaluit (Nunavut),
2019 - May - Belize diving,
2019 - Guelph/Toronto (Ontario), Whitehorse (Yukon), Skagway (Alaska), Carcross, Braeburn, Teslin, Watson Lake, Old Crow (best crow :) )
2020 - Whitehorse, Cross-Canada trip to Toronto in 5.5 days :) - Pandemic response in Toronto
2021 - Living in Guelph, March 10th I found Hunter, hiking every day, 2x a day, re-discovering my own backyard called Ontario ...
2022 - Jan Santa Monica ...
