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Brendan Powell

male from Canada

Location: my backpack

A travel tour guide by profession, I have led trips in 16 countries and seven languages, some of which I actually speak! A dramatic highway holdup of a group I was leading through Guatemala served as a sign from the universe that it was time for a change; eventually this evolved into writing full-time about travel.

Most of my travel writing is humourous and/or topical becuase I've often travelled to crazy places where you either have to laugh or cry..and often end up doing both in equal measure.

In my former life I lived in Japan for four years as a teacher, trainer, and diplomat of sorts. I have been on the road, more or less, for the last 15 years or so and have been to well over 50 countries.

Oh, and I call Toronto, Canada home if anywhere. It's one of those special places where you can travel every day without leaving home--the perfect base for a peripatetic wanderer.

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