The Travels of BBQboy and Spanky
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Why Most Digital Nomads Fail Within Their First Year. Over the last 12 years we’ve seen almost every digital nomad we’ve met fail. Why? The general reasons start with impossible dreams, poor planning, …
Looking back at 2025…and forward to 2026 (the year everything changes). I’ve been writing these year-end posts ever since I started this blog in 2013. I always say it: I do these year-end posts as …
Top 10 Underrated Towns and Cities Every Traveler Should Visit Before 2030. We love little-known, underrated destinations. They might not top people’s “bucket lists” but discovering them is infinitely …
7 Travel Resolutions Every Adventurer Should Make for 2026. After 5 years of working towards Permanent Residency in Spain, 2026 is the year we get back to full-time travel. With the new year days …
What Air Canada (and other airlines) do that you should know. We were coming to Canada because my father had a brain tumour and was dying. He was given 3 to 4 months and based on that we booked our …
What’s Canada like in 2025? I had heard the grumblings from Canadians visited us in Spain. They complain about the cost and availability (or lack of) of housing in Canada, about healthcare and the …
Planning and Resources for Slow Travel. Slow travel is the most sustainable way to travel long term. It allows you to travel the world affordably (often more affordably than you did back home), more …
When Iberia won’t pay your compensation claim Latest Update December 4, 2025. It’s been a year since the incidence happened and I’m still chasing Iberia, pestering the AESA (the Spanish …
How to spend 2 days in Quebec city. We spent 2 months in Quebec City this summer. It was a return to the area where I was born (right across the river in Levis) and where I spent the first 8 years of …
