Travel & self discovery. Art & PTSD I’m finding home

My bus ride had just begun and as we wound our way up the mountain, when this song (above) came on. I just love this song, the way it breaks at around the 30 second mark into such a pretty Read more

The rain just keeps coming, day after day, sometimes all through the night. I continue my morning visits to the river upon waking each day, to hear the river speak. To ignore the power of nature seems to be our Read more

My day started with a lovely bus ride into Otavalo on the morning of November 2. After visiting Maria and Javier just a few days before, and seeing the mountains from where they live, I was able to watch from Read more

When we left Agato in January, I made a promise to come back to color with the children of friends who own my favorite coffee/chocolate shop in Otavalo. Arriving here in Ecuador last year with 4 trunks as well as Read more

GOOGLE TRANSLATION: there are places where the translation is not perfect, but the article itself is a good testimony to the destructive nature of mining. This article was forwarded to me by my friend David, who among many others would Read more

You know you have adapted when you watch 2 men get on the bus carrying machetes and you don’t think twice about it. Speaking about the bus, I know how much I have grown and changed since arriving because I Read more

I had been warned over a week ago there could be another strike here in Ecuador, so this time I thought I would be prepared. As I said to my dear friend back home, it will probably not be so Read more

A few weeks ago I had made the decision to go to Bolivia for my next adventure. I didn’t really expect it would be an easy journey because with Mali transportation may prove difficult, but I felt it was an Read more

I just wanted to share this article today (I could not imbed the article, so copied it instead) because it is the first one I have read that clearly understands the difficulties of the oil and gas industry and the Read more

My introduction to Flamenco guitar music one Christmas Morning was an album by Ottmar Liebert, and I have been a fan ever since. He continues to be one of my all time favourites since that morning so many years ago. Read more