PERU | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [1325]
Our first mistake is thinking that we’ve come to organize and/or manage; our first lesson is realizing that the locals coordinating this project are professionally skilled and competent, and that the most valuable things we really have to offer are ... Read more >
Tags: culture, footprints, peru
PERU | Monday, 20 Aug 2007 | Views [2450] | Comments [1]
“Oh! It’s just so beautiful! To live in this amazing valley, pulling your meals from your garden, surrounded by your extended family, breathing fresh Andes air with views of glaciated peaks out your windows, all while living so close to the ground and ... Read more >
Tags: andes, footprints, history & politics, peru
PERU | Sunday, 19 Aug 2007 | Views [3603]
Footprint in Peru, Day 6: a welcome to the house of great mountains
a community service project sponsored by World Nomads As
we descend into the valley, I can't help but feel like I'm strolling
through ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007 | Views [1427]
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 the offering to the Apus. In consideration of their logistical ... Read more >
Tags: Snow
PERU | Monday, 13 Aug 2007 | Views [2461]
Veronica & her 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 ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
PERU | Friday, 10 Aug 2007 | Views [3212]
I call it, “living in my head” and am usually sequestered to this claustrophobically small space under one of the following conditions: my 12th consecutive hour in an office, my 4th cup of coffee in one hour, falling in love or severe physical illness.... Read more >
Tags: Doctors, hospitals & health
PERU | Monday, 6 Aug 2007 | Views [3166] | Comments [1]
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 shakes his head strongly in disagreement and, with ... Read more >
Tags: Philosophy of travel
PERU | Monday, 6 Aug 2007 | Photo Gallery
Footprints Community Service Project in Peru
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INDIA | Monday, 16 Apr 2007 | Photo Gallery
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INDIA | Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [2444]
This week, on the streets of Pondicherry, I was blessed by an elephant. And
she raised her trunk to deliver, upon my forehead, a sacred thump, a
story that I always felt compelled to compose, but never found the time
to type, came back to ... Read more >
Tags: animals, elephant
INDIA | Monday, 18 Dec 2006 | Views [1408]
pouring. drenching. pounding. drowning. rain. When
I was in Pune, they asked me, “Did it rain in the North, in Mumbai,
when you were there?” When I was in Goa, they asked me, “Did it rain in
the North, ... Read more >
Tags: midnight, monsoon, on the road
FRANCE | Monday, 6 Nov 2006 | Views [1457]
Where
the line narrows at the neck of the plane, instead of offering extended
arms of right-of-way (as I have been accustomed), men briskly step in
front of me with unknown, but unquestioned, authority on the order.
Downcast eyes discard my presence ... Read more >
Tags: airports, senegal
FRANCE | Friday, 3 Nov 2006 | Views [1464]
Popes, priests and prophets have their methods. Merchants, and those who buy
from them, name it in terms of this or that currency. But the value and
blessing upon any object, for me, cannot be determined by karat,
weight, age, dollar or any element ... Read more >
Tags: blessing, france, friends
FRANCE | Friday, 3 Nov 2006 | Views [1458]
pinched but not popped
Journal Entry Condom, France (How unfortunate to have a contraceptive device named after your city!) Mid-October Four
days ago, my brother (by blood) and my sister (by marriage) jumped off
a two-car train and ... Read more >
Tags: condom, family, france
FRANCE | Thursday, 19 Oct 2006 | Views [1335]
Once upon a time, in the Caribbean waters on the coast of Honduras, where the water and sky constantly compete in an indiscernible photo finish for the definition of turquoise, I was working as a divemaster with a Swiss and an Australian boy. One ... Read more >
Tags: animals, france, tinkerbell
FRANCE | Wednesday, 27 Sep 2006 | Views [1272]
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 my efforts to remain anonymous are about to abandon me when, ... Read more >
Tags: france, on the road
FRANCE | Monday, 18 Sep 2006 | Views [1455]
So for the record, I am now officially giving exact change, correctly ordering vegetarian food, and making it three or (sometimes!) even four sentences deep into conversations. It’s probably not particularly exciting for anyone else, but these are ... Read more >
Tags: on the road
FRANCE | Saturday, 16 Sep 2006 | Views [1375]
And although my French is shy, awkward and stuttering, Paris is as
smooth, soft and sexy as the voice of a French lover. The problem,
really, with my French, is that I know just enough to start any
conversation, but can’t comprehend enough to respond ... Read more >
Tags: airports
CHINA | Friday, 3 Mar 2006 | Views [2239]
I’m in the mood for a story. And this one is particularly good, because it *literally* stomps on any pride I’ve ever held in assuming myself a culturally sensitive individual. But having recognized that my heaviest burden is ego itself, I’ve come to ... Read more >
Tags: laughter, tibet
GUATEMALA | Friday, 23 Dec 2005 | Views [3943]
14.1, 3.1, 2.1
15.2, 3.4, 2.3
12.5, 2.7, 2.0
“Oh my gosh, this one’s so little!” I put the slide rule down and, with two careful fingers, lift the little creature up. His width, as measured exactly to be 2.0 centimeters, is small enough ... Read more >
Tags: Animals
GUATEMALA | Monday, 7 Nov 2005 | Views [1624]
Sometime in the last few months I picked up a new personal meal-prompted ritual. And it only slightly (and admittedly irrationally) bothers me that onlookers might presume I’m Christian (which I, although a fan of Jesus “the pilgrim,” am not) when I ... Read more >
Tags: Food & eating
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 19 Oct 2005 | Views [1159] | Comments [1]
Like a child who has witnessed a tragedy beyond their vocabulary of comprehension, my mouth has been closed in silent surrender of the search for fitting words that don’t exist. For who am I to speak? In every country I travel to, and with every firsthand ... Read more >
Tags: Mountains
NEPAL | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2005 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2005 | Views [1109] | Comments [1]
It's not about "having" time, but rather "making" time. You just put
you stake in the ground and say, "this is what I'm gonna do" and then
you do it. No one EVER has "extra" time to travel -- at least not
before ... Read more >
Tags: Travel Tips
USA | Tuesday, 18 Oct 2005 | Views [1605] | Comments [2]
This is the biggest complaint I hear; "I would travel…if only I had the money." I pay for ALL my travel expenses. Please
don’t think for a second that I’m pracin’ around on Dad’s plastic. My
parents “taught me the value of a dollar” ... Read more >
Tags: Budgets & money
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