Exploring spirituality in Montañita
posted over 2 years ago, updated 16 days later | 0 comments
Montañita, Ecuador -- At my last writing I was packing, sure that I was moving on from Montañita and the crimson sun that hovers over a straw-hued shoreline hinged near the earth’s equator. But alas, as I am wont to do, I changed my mind. And yes,...
A Gypsy amongst gypsies in Montañita
posted over 2 years ago, updated 23 days later | 2 comments
Montañita, Ecuador -- If you’d have told me ten -- or even five -- years ago that I’d be draped in bohemian garb hawking my handcrafted jewelry on a street corner alongside a coterie of similarly attired international artisans, I’d likely have sai...
The allure of Ecuador
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 0 comments
Baños, Ecuador -- The other night I was sharing my story with a young woman from Germany. “Ah” she said matter-of-factly. “So you quit your life.” I had never heard it put quite that way and it took a moment for me to realize that yes, this is pre...
Continued tales of travel in the Ecuadorian Amazon
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 1 comment
Oriente, Ecuador -- Since the earliest recorded contact with European society in the 1600s through nineteenth-century experiences with rubber barons and later oil explorers who began encroaching in the 1940s, violence and bloodshed have characteri...
Deep in the heart of the Ecuadoran Amazon
posted over 2 years ago, updated about 1 month later | 3 comments
Oriente, Ecuador -- He extended a hand and hauled me from the sludge in which I was helplessly sinking as I gracelessly struggled up the muddy hill separating the village from the Cononaco River below. Wearing rubber boots and a traditional co...
Food for thought
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 2 comments
Quito, Ecuador -- Vegetables. Lots of them. And tofu. Big globs of it. I may have just departed paradise but now I’m in heaven. Seems strange, I’m sure, to be reading orgiastic ravings about food from a travel writer whose culinary prowess is limi...
Galapagos: All is well in paradise
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 2 comments
Galapagos Islands -- I’m killing time in paradise. Kind of an oxymoronic concept, but that’s what I’m doing. I’m on Isla Isabela, the largest and most bountiful of the inhabited Galapagos Islands. Formed by five volcanic craters (all five volcanoe...
Back on the road in Ecuador
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 2 comments
Quito, Ecuador – For the past four years I’ve been living out of one bag and traveling the world with only the vaguest of plans. Not so much a globe-trotter as a continent hopper, I cross borders as nonchalantly as most people cross the street. By...
The journey is the destination
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 6 comments
Don’t get me wrong. It’s not that I wasn’t scared undertaking this journey. I was terrified when I boarded that first plane to Australia. But I was also galvanised by the prospect of what lay before me. Early on – and even still today – I received...
Becoming a Global Gypsy
posted over 2 years ago, updated 2 months later | 5 comments
Unexpected changes in my life created the opportunity for me to become a Global Gypsy.
Change can be foreboding, deterred as we are by fear of the unknown and reassured as we are by the familiar. It can be traumatic if change is prompted by unfor...
Change can be foreboding, deterred as we are by fear of the unknown and reassured as we are by the familiar. It can be traumatic if change is prompted by unfor...
