**Last updated on November 21, 2015.
I suppose I’m expected to make some sort of post that explains to everyone out there in Internet land who on earth I am, and why on earth you should care enough to read this blog. My name is Shawna O’Flaherty. I’m in my early 30s, I’m from Montreal but transplanted to Toronto, I have a moderately serious travel addiction that is held in check by boring obligations such as pets, a job, and lack of funds. In April of 2010, as a result of an ugly argument with a now ex-boyfriend, I quit my job and uprooted my life to Toronto. I no longer analyze TV ratings. I work in travel at Kensington Tours. I love travel. It fuels an addiction to travel, and if I didn’t want to go somewhere before, I sure do now!
What else? Je parle français, but I’ve decided this will be a mostly English-language blog because I don’t write as well in French. I graduated from Concordia University in 2006 with a joint specialization in communications and journalism. I run Toronto Booze Hound with my other half.
I’m slowly working my way through my bucket list of things to do, places to see, foods to eat, and places to poop. Kidding about the last one. Sort of.
I’ve traveled to the following countries: Canada, US, Ireland, Greece, Italy, The Vatican, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Burma, South Korea, Iceland, Costa Rica, Ecuador, UAE, Malaysia, Turkey, Fiji and Australia.
I don’t have a bucket list of places I ‘must’ see, but there are few places that come to mind that I wouldn’t be interested in going to. The immediate short list centres around Bhutan, India and Tibet. I love the idea that Bhutan measures its success in Gross National Happiness, and ever since I found out about that, I have not been able to get the country out of my head. Who knows where I’ll actually end up though?
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You’ve been around a bit. Are you also on Twitter? I can’t see a link on your blog. Are we connected there, yet?
http://twitter.com/traveldudes
I would like to ask you something… perhaps you could contact me. Would be great!
Many greetings
Melvin
No, I don’t user Twitter.
But you can ask here.
You should consider Argentina and/or Brazil as well! They are awesome countries!
Both of those countries are pretty high on the list of things I want to see. 🙂
Hey, I work with the CheapOair travel blog (cheapoair.typepad.com) and we’re interested in having you guest blog for us. Please contact me if you’re interested. Thanks! Aldo.
Hey, I work with the CheapOair travel blog (cheapoair.typepad.com) and we’re interested in having you guest blog for us. Please contact me if you’re interested. Thanks! Aldo.
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Do you mind if I quote a few of your articles as long as I provide credit and sources back to your site? My website is in the very same niche as yours and my visitors would certainly benefit from a lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if this okay with you. Cheers!
I don’t mind. 🙂
i have the travel bug too, except i’m not so happy doing the paper pushing. i envy your travels.
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Hey dude–in your first paragraph, you didn’t mention the company’s name. Not sure if it’s intentional or not!
-tracey
It wasn’t intentional, it was some HTML #fail on my part. Thank you for your keen eye!
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Great blog, love your writing style. Wish I stumbled upon this sooner! Now you’ve got me hooked on travel AND your blog so please continue posting semi-regularly.