Big World. Small Paws

India is, as everyone says, a place where everyday spirituality is apparent.  We were there for a special yearly Hindu celebration for Shiva while we were in Jaipur.  We visited two temples with our guide and came out blessed with flowers.   Later we visited the renown...

We visited Rwanda in January.  It is a special place for me.  I lived there for several years from 1994-1997  following the war and genocide.  I worked with some extraordinary people with an organization called Food For the Hungry.  We were young and idealistic and wor...

We made our way to the northern frontier of Patagonia and spent several nights in this Idyllic cabin.  It was located at the base of the Cochamo Valley near the mouth of the Piedra River and the start of the La Junta trail, a 30-mile trail that takes hikers and climber...

Jane and Maggie often found that they attracted attention while in India.  They were troopers and patiently agreed to be in photos with countless families and individuals. They were fascinated by two blond-haired, blue-eyed American girls.  Almost all of the people wer...

When we were in India, a lot of time we were on the street. When we walked on the streets, we saw many interesting things. First, there were many retired cows roaming freely all over the streets. It was very hard to walk on the street without seeing a cow!

We also saw...

My family and I went to India for 9 days and we saw lots of cool things like big nice cows in the road, colorful camels with bells and beautiful fabrics and little boys leading them on the street.  We also saw on the street big oxen pulling carts that had colorful horn...

While we were studying Spanish at the Mariposa Center in the forest of Nicaragua, I mentioned to my conversation teacher, Marta, that I was interested in pre-Columbian archaeology.  She mentioned that her family farm was nearby.  When she was a girl in the early 1990s,...

Helping in Kenya was one of the highlights of our world trip. We worked for over a week at the Namayiana Children’s Home in the Maasailand of Kenya. The home was started by Gloria and Scott Scharton of Littleton and their organization, Kenya Kidz. Gloria is a teacher a...

We already wrote about our Spanish school in Cuenca, Ecuador and our visits to Cotopaxi and to Mindo in Ecuador.  But here are a few other things we did and really enjoyed in that wonderful country.

We visited the equator which they make a big deal of in Ecuador, with a...

This is a post is out of order as we try to catch up on some of our previous adventures.  In July, when we were touring the USA, we visited southern Wisconsin.  To be specific, we spent several days in Rock County in and near the town of Edgerton.  This is where my mot...