I will come back to this blog; I’ve just been planning a wedding for the last 6 months (and abroad for 2.5 of those) – so please just forgive me. In the meantime, I do…
Browsing Category press & media
mixed bag of future, past & present
Well, I’ve finally got myself that cup of coffee and computer time that I’ve been craving. As well as a messy pile of stained notes and unorganized photos documenting my day-by-day account of the adventures…
a few questions & answers
I recently answered the following questions from a Portuguese journalist and figured to recycle the content. The answers are short because the last time I had something published, the editor, having no mercy with the…
sweating, seeping, Senegal
No peanuts are served on my flight from Paris to Dakar. But as I pull down the seat tray and flip open (for the first time) my Lonely Planet Senegal, I learn that in addition…
la petite fille
I try to hunch into the longer shadows cast by the spotlight. Then I try turning around and searching for some speaker or spectacle that might give me more shade. I quickly realize that all…
paving the path
I didn’t think much of it when a very nice man emailed me about six months ago with a contract for a quote off this site, but boy did I blush when I found this…
safe passage continued
(I’ve got thoughts to compose and post, but we’re fast on the move as the semester comes to close. The following comes from a newsletter update that Hanley, the director of Camino Seguro, asked me…
monsoon hiking
You COULD hike to La Ciudad Perdida in the dry season, but then you´d miss out on… pre-hike muscle warm ups… showers with REAL water pressure… hour-after-hour of giggle worthy mud music… alternative modes of…
blog of note
“A Cozy Corner of the WWW” Solbeam.com made the “Blogs of Note” list on Blogger.com this week. Coincidentally, Halcyon (also an ex-CC Community Voice, who gives the best hugs in all my embracing experiences, and…