by Karen | Dec Fri, 2019 | Canada, Home Page Post, Travel Journal
Almost three years ago, Scott re-launched our blog with an announcement that we were leaving to volunteer and travel indefinitely. We’d done that before, but this time, he explained, we were selling our stuff, getting rid of our apartment, and leaving home for a...
by scott | Oct Sun, 2019 | Home Page Post, Mexico, Travel Journal
An extraodinary period of our life comes to an end, and a new one begins I was staring out the airplane window as we landed in Mexico City at night. Karen and I knew this would be our last trip for a while, and we each felt quite mixed about it. We both knew we’d be...
by scott | Aug Tue, 2019 | Canada, Home Page Post, Travel Journal
We often believe we have to leave home to experience something extraordinary. We seek out the mysterious and exotic places of our imagination in the far away and hard to get to. We take for granted what is familiar, dismissing the sacred as mundane. Because it’s...
by scott | Aug Wed, 2019 | Canada, Home Page Post, Israel, Travel Journal
You know when you wake up in the middle of the night to visit the toilet? Well, obviously we do that too. But sometimes I’ll wake up and for several seconds have no idea where I actually am. I have to lay there and allow my mind to adjust to my location. Uh… Hereford?...
by scott | May Mon, 2019 | Home Page Post, Hong Kong, Travel Journal
I have never felt the need to mark birthdays. But I have also been really lucky to spend more than my fair share of birthdays somewhere more interesting than my living room. Living and working in the English Lake District, hiking in the Himalayas in Nepal, living in...
by scott | Apr Fri, 2019 | Home Page Post, Philippines, Travel Journal
It wasn’t a sound that belonged on a silent 10-day Vipassana retreat. I was sitting at the kitchen table in our residence when I startled at the sound. A strange, moaning cry. It was Day 10 and students had just ended the silence of nine days and were now chatting...
