The desert is my personal landscape — what’s yours?
The novelist and island writer Lawrence Durrell believed we are each aligned with certain places.
This is where we do our best work because we resonate with the Spirit of Place.
Writer, Explorer and Travel Philosopher
Cruising Through the Bu
August 19, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I’m just back from a couple weeks in LA, hanging with some of my magazine friends. Cruising through Malibu, walks on Santa Monica beach, shopping in Beverly Hills, and lunch on Sunset Blvd.
Show Your Faces If You Dare
August 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Clive J. from the UK asked: What do you know as a result of travel the rest of us don’t?
I think the most important lessons are things we forget in the day to day, not things we don’t know.
The Chains That Bind Us
February 23, 2010 by 2 Comments
Surely everyone realizes, at some point, that they are capable of living a far better life than the one they have chosen. What usually stops them is fear of the sacrifices involved.
How Deep Are Those Lines Between Countries?
February 12, 2010 by 3 Comments
Borders signify change and a new beginning. They’re a crossing over into unknown territory, evoking feelings of possibility that contain great hope as well as great fear. But borders are also a closing off. When we enter new terrain, we’re closing off what came before both physically and philosophically. We can never go back. Nature allows no birth without a corresponding death.
Don’t Be Seduced by Immediacy
February 9, 2010 by 8 Comments
I came across a quote last week that I want to share with you.
It’s taken from a letter that Charles Darwin—the Father of Evolution—wrote at the end of his life. He said:
You Can’t Buy All Your Dreams
August 5, 2009 by 1 Comment
All travelers agree that no trip has the same soul-shaking impact of that first time you set out alone on the road.
Looking back, I can see how necessary it had been for me to go to Central America. I had to leave home to acquire the necessary vision and experience, to come to an understanding of what it is to live for living’s sake.
Numen of Regret
July 29, 2009 by 4 Comments
It’s strange to think that after everything, when it’s all over, you just quit. Your light simply goes out and you are no more. What I find saddest about that whole notion is all the questions left unanswered when we die. Nothing will be solved. No one will tell us what it was really all about. How we did. Worst of all, we’ll never find the answers to all those nagging puzzles that haunt us.
