We did a several day trek in the Annapurna Conservation area of Nepal in late October, early November. The area we were trekking was at relatively low altitude (highest point was 3200m) and populated every couple of hours by small villages of a couple to […]
Hello again! It’s been a long while since I last posted here, or really gave an update on our travels. Time for me to fix that. 😀 After we left South America back in July we headed to Ethiopia for a couple of weeks. There, […]
Reading books from and about Africa was a great delight given how shockingly little we are exposed to in the United States! I hope you’ll find one or two books on this list — or some other list for that matter — that interest you. […]
As part of a several week safari through East Africa, I had the chance to visit the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda’s capital city. Many of us–especially in the West– are likely familiar with the Rwandan genocide from news in the 1990s, or maybe from […]
In my short few months in Africa, I managed to become one of the more than 200 million people each year who will be infected with malaria (WHO, as of 2015). 89% of these cases, and 91% of the over 400,000 deaths annually, occur in […]
It’s amazing to realize that we’ve now been traveling for over four months and have already left South America to begin a few months journey in Africa. To celebrate that time, I’m looking back on the highlights, things I never wrote about and even now […]
This is the second trip installment of ‘books I’m reading.’ Check out the first here, with readings from Argentina and Chile. Here, I include books about or from the regions we visited in the second half of our time in South America, including the countries […]
Before we’d even made it to Bolivia we’d been told we had to check out Gustu. We did and were well-rewarded. Gustu Restaurant in LaPaz is a project of Claus Meyer, co-founder of the famous Noma in Copenhagen, set in this sprawling South American city at […]
Bolivia has impressed me in so many ways, from its amazing cultural traditions (for example, this museum for its history of textiles), to its fabulous food (on a global stage, for example, Gustu), and overall its stunning natural beauty. When we had the chance to tour the […]
Earlier this month I spent an inspiring week in Paraguay with Joe Giménez and Gustavo Diaz of El Cántaro. El Cántaro consists of two programs, a gallery for the sale of local and indigenous crafts and a free school, where students of all ages can […]
I had the pleasure of meeting with the Executive Director of the widely-awarded social enterprise Njambre at their coworking space in Buenos Aires. Njambre started three years ago as a business accelerator for other social enterprises in Argentina and the region. After success starting a […]
As we’ve started to plan each new destination I’ve been delighted to find how much there is to be curious about each new place, country, region. The task of “knowing” a place is of course impossible in the short few weeks we will often have. […]
Nearby is the Country They Call Life 