Braver Places
Travel boldly. Live fully. Bring the dog.
The Heart of Braver Places
We believe life gets bigger when you stop waiting for the perfect time. Braver Places is about travelling more boldly, living more fully, and choosing the road, the view, the conversation, the wrong turn, the quiet morning, the wild place, and the small brave 'yes' that changes how you see your life.
Through intentional travel stories, photos, and reflections from places like Cuba, Thailand, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Galapagos Islands, and our sailing trip from Comox to San Francisco, we’re gathering the moments that remind us to live now, not someday.
This is for people who are ready to trade someday for now — to explore more, feel more, laugh more, breathe deeper, bring the dog, and remember that the best parts of life rarely wait for perfect conditions.
go before you're ready!
We’re buying an RV, renting out our house, packing up our life, bringing Foxy, and setting out on a six-month road trip.
We don’t have every detail figured out yet — and that’s part of the story.
Braver Places is where we’ll share the whole journey:
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choosing the rig
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preparing the house
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planning the route
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facing the nerves
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making mistakes
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finding beauty along the way
It’s not just a road trip — it’s the beginning of a braver way to live.
The Adventure We’re Choosing
Peter & Sanaz
We’re Peter and Sanaz — partners in life, creativity, and the ongoing experiment of choosing Braver Places.
For years, we lived a good, familiar, responsible life. And we’re grateful for it.
But somewhere along the way, a quieter truth became harder to ignore.
Life was asking something more of us — more presence, more wonder, more courage, and more time together in places that make us feel alive.
We’re both around 50 now, and that has a way of softening you and waking you up at the same time.
You start to understand that later is not a promise. The dreams you keep saving for someday can quietly become the dreams you never lived.
And we didn’t want that.
So we stopped waiting for perfect timing, complete readiness, or some guaranteed sign that it was safe to go.
Because that sign may never come.
We decided to follow the feeling before the chance quietly passed us by.
Braver Places is our story of stepping away from the predictable path and into something more honest, uncertain, beautiful, and alive.
It’s about travel, yes — but also about the deeper journey underneath the miles. Choosing adventure before we have all the answers. Making a life now, not waiting for someday.
Being scared and going anyway.
We’re not doing this because we have everything figured out. We’re doing it because we don’t.
This is not the path we thought we were on.
Some days, that feels wildly exciting. Some days, it asks more courage from us than we expected. Most days, it feels like both.
But we only get this one beautiful life, and we don’t want to spend the next chapter waiting at the edge of it, wondering what might have happened if we had been brave enough to begin.
So we’re beginning.
With Foxy, the cameras, the notebooks, the open road, the messy middle, and a deep trust that this life still has more to show us.
We’re choosing the open road over the old routine. The present moment over the someday plan. A life deeply lived over one carefully managed.
And if you’ve ever felt that quiet ache for something more — if you’ve ever looked at your life and wondered, “It’s good, but is this all?” — maybe you’ll find a little piece of your own story here too.
Welcome to Braver Places.
Meet Foxy
Foxy is our four-legged co-pilot — curious, loyal, occasionally bossy, and always part of the adventure. Wherever we go, she reminds us to slow down, sniff the air, and enjoy the simple things along the way.
Meet Sanaz
Sanaz is an artist, potter, writer, yoga teacher, and creative guide. Alongside our Braver Places journey, she shares her own creative world through pottery, paintings, writing, workshops, and yoga.
Her work is rooted in presence, beauty, nature, and the quiet courage it takes to live more honestly.
Visit her website to explore her art, writing, classes, and upcoming offerings.