About
Hello! My name is David Bates and I’m an Englishman living in San Diego, California. I’m a Catholic, INFJ and Software Engineer.
The title of this blog is “Restless Pilgrim” and it describes well how I’ve felt over the last few years. These years have certainly been interesting ones, filled with uncertainty, adventure, frustration, heartbreak and excitement. I lived in London for the first time and moved around a lot before ultimately leaving England and travelling 5,489 miles away to live in the United States.
“Travel writing can be much more revealing than we realise. Without our firm anchors and safe havens, authors can often find themselves reflecting with greater depth than they might normally achieve from their more secure bases”
- Michael Ford, A Restless Soul: Meditations from the Road
Living a rather rootless life like this tends to teach you some important life lessons and the whole experience has left me with the feeling that they should be shared. These are some of the things I will be sharing on this blog. The other thing I will be writing extensively about will be my faith and apologetics. Over the last few years I have also found myself increasingly called upon to explain and defend Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular.
Please feel free to comment on any of my posts or send me an email.
