"Whew! What an adventure. Now that it’s finished, I can honestly say that I’m glad I did it. Would I do it again? Nope. Would I go back? Yes, I would go back to parts of India (and definitely Nepal) again, but just as a tourist, not as a rickshaw driver." The above snippet was taken from the last page of the blog that I wrote while doing the Rickshaw Run in 2011. I totally meant what I wrote at … [Read more...]
Burning Man Revisited
Burning Man. A city in the desert. A culture of possibility. A network of dreamers and doers. An annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance. I had no intentions of going to Burning Man this year. People asked throughout the year if I was going to go again, and after missing the opening ticket sales online (through a technical oversight … [Read more...]
Christmas Cheer in Cali
Just returned back stateside after a month of so down in Colombia. While I was there I spent some quality time with my buddy Mike, his Colombian-born wife Maria, and her family and friends. Had an amazing time in Cali experiencing the Colombian version of Christmas and New Year's Eve (food, family, feria, aguardiente, blaring salsa, and firecrackers inside of straw effigies), and then spent a … [Read more...]
