We’ve been living in Chicago for over a year, amongst people for whom the words “market” and “Hong Kong” would typically correlate with stocks and bonds and financial instruments. Our interest, however, is in a very different kind of Hong…
Rain forest, river and bamboo ~ Puerto Rico (Part 2)
When we marvel at the large and beautiful clumps of bamboo dotted in the Puerto Rican landscape, Brook (see part 1) tells us she has a surprise for us…..! She decides to switch things up a bit from our daily…
A fellow nomad in Puerto Rico (Part 1)
Every so often, one gets to meet a “kindred spirit”. So it was when Peta met Brook. We were living in Granada, Nicaragua in 2011 ( mas o menos) and Brook, badass surfer girl (originally from Montana), was traveling solo…
O.R.T ~ Operation Rescue Thurgood ~ Nicaragua.
A mere four days after arriving back in Chicago from two months in SE Asia and very much still jet lagged, I set out to meet my son Adam, in Nicaragua, for a week. Ben and I lived and worked…
Home away from home ~ The Margosa Residencies in Colombo, Sri Lanka
In a land far, far away, previously known as Ceylon, there lies the congested capital city of Colombo. As beautiful as the country of Sri Lanka is, for most visitors, Colombo is merely a springboard to other destinations, such as the bucolic beaches,…
I made a promise to an elephant in Sri Lanka!
We are in a predicament. We may not write explicitly, by name or location, about our favorite elephant , because we await “official approval” from the pertinent Ministry. Therefore, until we receive the go ahead, we will not refer to our elephant…
Tissa Lake, Sri Lanka ~ Nature connectedness.
We are making our way across Sri Lanka towards Namal ~ the baby elephant whom we met last year and vowed to help get a new leg. We have a few days before our “date” with our pachiderm. We have…
Wild beaches and local markets: 2 Green Global Trek favorites ~ Sri Lanka
Our stay in Arugam Bay is a symphony in colors. Whether at the beach, where the colorful fishing boats are the dominant feature, or later at an open air market where the men’s colorful sarongs are omnipresent, we are surrounded by…