Twenty years ago I spent a year traveling from Los Angeles, California to the southernmost end of South America. Most of the journey was taken on local buses, traveling from town to town, through Mexico, Central America and South America. During that time I wrote a series of stories, which were published in a California […]
We slept on the beach that night. There were five of us. Esther and Lev were from North Carolina and had just arrived in country. James and John, two brothers from California, were on a surf safari along the shores of Central America. Being the only Americans on a cross-country bus trip, we all got […]
Sometimes in our lives we have “mountaintop experiences”, occasions and events that stand out as triumphs in overcoming life’s difficulties. Often, we don’t recognize these moments when they occur, but time burnishes our memories and we come to realize the full measure of the heights we ascended and the storms we weathered. The following is […]
It’s a mystery really, how we live our lives. So many people, places and events inform us from the moment we’re born… even before we’re born. Naturally there are familial, social and cultural currents, which sweep us along in their streams, painting narratives onto our experience. Our perceptions and the opinions we form are continually […]
“There is so much weariness and disappointment in travel that people have to open up — in railway trains, over a fire, on the decks of steamers, and in the palm courts of hotels on a rainy day. They have to pass the time somehow, and they can pass it only with themselves. Like the […]