At 12:58pm, more than 400,000 people went silent. Two minutes later, a wave of vocal energy exploded 20 blocks behind us and made its way to us, through us, and onto those who marched ahead of us. For the first…
Their border patrol also stole a small portion of our sanity. We decided to go to Panama after our plans got…shifted. We had planned on getting to Panama anyway so when things didn’t work out as expected, we just shrugged…
Once you take a few steps out into the world you realize two main things. 1. The word is huge. Like, HUGE. You will never see it all. 2. Then unseen bonds that human beings have across oceans, borders and…
There is a an old folktale that turtles cry when they bury their eggs. I can see why people who have seen a mother turtle lay her eggs, bury them, and leave them to the universe to take care of…
Ghandi is famously quoted as saying “be the change you wish to see in the world”. In fact, this bumper sticker quote was probably extracted from the following verifiable quote from Ghandi… “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in…
Traveling as a lifestyle requires budgeting. It isn’t like vacationing where you might spend what you need to to have the “perfect” break from life. This is our life. Now that our housesit on Lake Atitlan is over and we…
One of our most important goals is to connect with people as we travel. It is all too easy to categorize people and to explain away the worlds ills with generalizations and dinner table chats on politics. But who are…
Who was I to insist that any parent send their young child hours away, to schools without proper infrastructure, often to be raised by someone else (when boarding was necessary due to limited options)? Who was I to tell a…
We walk almost 3km when the familiar understanding that time and distance do not have concrete meaning in India, hits me. I don’t know why I am ever surprised by this fact. Any utterance of “it’s not very far” while…
Traveling indefinitely may seem to many like a rich person’s dream. One of the first thing that jumps to most people’s minds is “how could we possibly afford that?!” In reality, long term travel does not have to break the…