Before I ever went camping, I assumed that to see animals up close in the wild, you had to spend days on end in the middle of nowhere, disguised as a bush. It hadn’t occurred to me that animals have no interest in making nice with a bush; they want to make nice with humans, [...]
I could have come home from France with a trophy. And not just any old trophy, but one big enough to impress running friends with rooms full of trophies. I would have put it on top of the bookcase, a few feet from my front door. Whenever visitors commented on it, I would have told [...]
I’ve travelled enough to know that getting around in a foreign land isn’t always easy, especially if I don’t speak the language. Still, I’ve always felt the rewards outweigh the hardships, until I visited Anaheim. I was there to explore while Bob attended a conference. I wasn’t interested in riding flying elephants or spinning teacup, [...]
Friends back home think I’m downing piña coladas at a beachfront bar, hiking through a rainforest, or sitting in a hot tub watching the orange glow of a distant volcano. Just over a month ago, I would have guessed the same thing, because that’s what tourists do in Costa Rica. I’d even visited before, twice. [...]