The floors were a wide dark wood, uneven and thick, almost too cool for bare feet. Our room contains a small bed and a shelf, it is tucked neatly behind dark green closet doors. I set my bag down heavily, ran my fingers over the […]
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“I can’t see nothing!!” Our guide wails forlornly over the 15hp engine, it stutters suspiciously, not catching the water in a smooth whir. The night has settled in thickly around us and the lush tropical rainforest has come even more alive in the dark. […]
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I’ve been thinking about a moment I had a few weeks ago in Colombia. After a long bus ride (16 hours) from Cartagena to Medellin we took two nights to recover in The City of Eternal Spring. This moniker refers to Medellin’s climate, which is […]
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Father’s Day holds a special day in my heart. When I was a child, I would attend church on Father’s day, and listen to stories about my Heavenly Father, and how he sacrificed his only Son for us. This meant a great deal to me! […]
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We’ve just arrived in Quito, Ecuador and in two days we are heading to the Amazon!!! The last week or so we’ve been hanging out in Cali, Colombia as our plan to travel by bus to Popayan, Ipiales, and on to Ecuador was cancelled due […]
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“El Roca!” The tuk-tuk driver shouts triumphantly as we lurch forward, gaining our top speed of 10 mph in that first moment. He has decorated his tuk-tuk carefully and proudly points out little details to us as we drive. He will hand us a small green […]
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“We are in the middle, we are caught between two protests.” A broad shouldered man explains to me in Spanish. “We must go now.” This is all I understand for certain. He takes his ball cap off and slaps his leg with it. The cap […]
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I don’t know when J.M Barrie’s book Peter and Wendy got all tangled up with Cabo de la Vela in my mind but they’ve become inextricable from each other. In this post that confusing and wonderful story is tied up with our own. If it’s a […]
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We spent the last few days falling in love with the Centro Historico de Cartagena. This is one city that remains as colorful as it’s past! [huge_it_gallery id=”3″]
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I’m sitting in the shade of a palm tree, a soft breeze carrying the cool, salty scent of the Caribbean sea up to me. She’s relentless, endlessly crashing down on the sand. If you stand within her reach you can feel her tugging on you, sucking […]
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Sometimes you find yourself standing on the edge of a cliff and looking down at nothing but water spread out below you. It always seems a lot higher when you’re looking down, when you can feel that tight twist of fear squirming around and tangling up […]
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