Category: <span>Travel</span>
A Mayan Prayer
We are about to start our hike on San Pedro volcano on the shores of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala. At the trailhead a sign encourages all hikers to read this prayer: O heart of the sky Heart of mother earth Heart of the lake Heart of the fire Alongside the 4 […]
Inflexion Point
What does it take to change a life? A split-second. A simple realization can radically alter the course of an existence. I know this because it happened to me. Last year I had everything going for me: owner of a beautiful house in the heart of San Francisco; successful professional […]
Encounters in Mexico
Chepina drives her Quad ATV in the bumpy streets of Sayulita, doing housecleaning in several rental homes owned by Americans in this little surf town on the Riviera Nayarit. I hand her a $100 Pesos (~ $8 USD) tip for her work keeping the house clean these past few days. […]
An Active Volcano Hike
Finally we park our pick-up truck loaded with surfboards in front of the tourist information booth of the Pacaya volcano. Stef and I have been looking for this place for a while, struggling with the general scarcity of road signs in Guatemala and the uselessness of pocket-size maps in guidebooks. […]
Night Train
The guide drops of us at the Nha Trang station where we are going to take the night train to Danang on this sixth day of our trip in Vietnam: “Don’t lose sight of your luggage and mostly don’t talk to anyone. But don’t worry, everything will be fine.” A […]
Up in the air
I am flying from Paris to San Francisco. At age 24 this is my first ‘genuine’ air travel experience. Business trips to Barcelona and Dusseldorf don’t count: by the time you finish your drink and peanuts the crew starts the landing procedure. Today is the real thing: ten to eleven […]