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 …
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 …
Hola desde Panamá! Hello from Panama! I came to this Central American country for a short trip even though I will be leaving Bogota in only about a week. Why the need for a quick vacation? Well, as responsible and organized as I generally feel I am (brushing off my shoulders nonchalantly), I made a grievous mistake when I purchased …
I arrived in Chinchiná, Caldas within the Eje Cafetero (coffee-growing) region of Colombia on Saturday. I chose this move in order to have a different experience particularly for the holiday season. The organization Minga House coordinates volunteers to help with a wide variety of community needs. Many of their volunteers are foreigners who come for a meaningful travel experience and …
Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean. John Muir August 4-6, 2016 “Choose your own adventure”‘ Abram Dickerson tells our group of 10 runners who sit around the picnic table, eagerly listening to details before the first day of …
Some people do walk back to Santiago from Finisterre, or by way of Muxia where I had already been. I felt fortunate to have had the time to walk out to the sea, but needed to bus back to Santiago to fly home on Thursday. I had a leisurely morning, with some breakfast and coffee with an ocean view, then …
Last night I stayed in a “Pensión”, which is basically renting a room in a house. I think they are usually advertised as such and have some loose regulations of what they’ll provide, but I have also had people ask me in cities if I’m looking for a room to rent and in some of the smaller more rural pueblos …