In my defense, I have to point out that it really should have been the responsibility of Javier and Jairo to inquire as to my personal definition of “favorable weather” before asking me to make…
Browsing Category philosophy
Footprints in Peru, Day 4: appeasing the apus
“I knew you were better as soon as your laugh woke me up,” declares Javier. Indeed, while my mental facilitates napped through a 13-hour siesta, my body, with the assistance of the antibiotics, regained control…
Footprints in Peru Day 1: puncturing peruvian skin & yachcay
Plaza de Armas, Cusco, Peru “Where are you from?” It’s the same first question every shoe shining boy in the Plaza de Armas has been trained to ask. “The heavens,” I reply in Spanish. He…
waking up; looking out
(Photo courtesy of friend, co-worker and fellow travel blogger, Tim Hare.) Hi friends. Obviously I have been busy. Today I walked in the door from two weeks spent in the California Sierras conducting an orientation…
pointing the finger
I blame the absence of a weekend post on the fact that my fingers have kept busy these last few late nights turning the pages of the following: Amazon Reader Reviews: Sugar Blues – William…
further more
(Sorry; been busy crossing borders!) I’ll be back with another (final?) chapter on my bush taxi trip in Senegal soon, but if you’re eager to move forward with another story of African adventure, the following…
if it be the will
if it be the will “Just pulled into Tamba. Don’t worry about me okay?” I type in and send the text message to Mbouille on the cell phone that he insisted I buy. By…
un-tethered time
You know that sometimes my only clues to an ongoing holiday are the icons that dance around the Yahoo and Google front pages? The funny thing about holidays, which I think is only taken into…
mysteriously sustained
Every vision, every interaction, every conversation, every person – in Senegal – is a composition. Like a shaken bottle of champagne, I feel myself about to explode in explanation of what I would easily label,…