How intriguing is this first line: Let’s talk about “Health Care Decisions Day”. Yeah, the words are mundane, but take a hot second to think about what the national day on April 16 was intended for. According to The Conversation Project, National Healthcare Decisions Day exists to inspire, educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of …
How did more than four months go by with no blogpost? I have missed writing but have had other things taking my energy and time since September, including getting a job in Boulder, and all the things that go with coming back into “responsible adult life” in a community I was away from for a long time. Since returning I’ve …
From time to time, I’m going to write more about my life in Colombia, and this post is dedicated to a very important person there. Raul Posse is the man who hired me to teach English for a language school in Bogotá which specializes in providing personalized one-on-one or small group classes for business English language learners. Not only was …
I’ll never forget the tears that just kept coming, back on March 10, 2018, as my plane took off from San Francisco: final destination Bogotá. I was excited and happy that I’d made the decision and finished all the preparations to move to Colombia for a year, but the overwhelming feelings of unknown and having chosen to go far from my …
I was privileged to get to visit one of the Wonders of the World during my travels in Peru, but I wish I would have done it a little differently. There are many options when you visit Cusco, The Sacred Valley, and Machu Picchu. I had done a little research but honestly, not enough. I was planning my travels while still working in Bogotá and knowing …
April 14, I flew from Bolivia to Lima, Peru. After leaving Carrie and the fun we had together, I felt a little bit lost. I had reserved lodging in Lima but had nothing else planned. I arrived and didn’t feel very excited, which I recognized would probably pass but I didn’t like the sort-of-apathetic feeling when there is so much I …
After the Salar de Uyni and other mountain landscapes tour, Carrie & I flew back to La Paz, hopped on a bus for 4 hours and rode to Lake Titicaca. You can visit this enormous high altitude lake (over 14,000 feet) from the Bolivia side or the Peru side, but I had heard it was more picturesque from where we …
Querida Carrie- she is a dear friend who loves and has grown from her own travel experiences, and whose opinions I value. One factor in me moving to Colombia was her and her husband’s joint suggestion about it as a possibility for me to live and work. We decided on Bolivia because she hadn’t visited it during other SA travels …
It’s hard to believe that I’ve been living in Colombia for almost a year! I arrived on March 11, 2018. I’ve had a work contract and visa for the year so I’ll be departing Colombia at the end of March. As my time here draws nearer to a close, I think it’s time for another entry to make you laugh …
What is a Coffeemaker Axis? The English language doesn’t really use the word “axis” in this way, but it’s the translation of Eje. And Cafetero = coffee-maker/making. I spent all of December and the first part of January in Colombia’s Eje Cafetero, a well-known area and one that has created a lot of pride in most people here for its history, culture, …