TobyOn Sunday, June fifth (yes, that’s tomorrow), I will close my laptop. I will put it on a shelf, and I will not see it […]
Tag: adventure
What Makes this Mountain Different from all other Mountains?
Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome Valle Aurelia, Rome, Italy This could be any street in any city. Mixed-era apartment buildings. Imposing stone architecture at turns. Cobblestones […]
Journeys All The Way Down
Goes into the post office to mail home some books… 30 minutes and 90 stamps later ^^ Once, a great guru came to a small […]
The Bittersweet Beauty of Goodbye
If I sift through the shadowy pathways of my memory, I will touch a hundred moments of parting and a thousand words of farewell in […]
Next Up, Cape Town: Meeting the Voice of Intuition
Chapman’s Peak, near one of my possible next homes. The flights are booked. Philadelphia —> NYC —> Amsterdam —> Helsinki. Short pause. Helsinki —> London […]
Traveling Light: “Only What I Can Carry” Photo Project
Saturday, October 3rd, 2015. Helsinki, Finland. [This is only an excerpt from a longer piece about this project written for elephant journal. For the full […]
I Want to Do All of the Things
This is not a bucket list. I wrote this list a few weeks ago as the realization dawned on me that, without exaggeration, I want […]
An Incomplete Guide to Sicily in Quotes & Pictures
Valle dei Templi (Valley of the Temples), Agrigento, Sicily “The climate’s delicate; the air most sweet. Fertile the isle, the temple much surpassing The common […]
The Importance of a Quest
Today, I spent an hour looking for soap. Not just any soap (those who know me will know how picky I am about my soap… […]
Sometimes We Don’t Take Pictures: Camping on the Beach and Other Undocumented Adventures
Greetings from Tanzania! In the week since I returned from the U.S., I have not taken a single photograph. In that time, we have spent […]