Our good friend Sharon R. asked for some reflections on our 14 months odyssey in Asia… “Do you feel changed by your time in Asia? By your nomadic style? What have you gained, lost, how are you different from when…
16 hours in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
The path of our nomadic journey is determined not only by our desire to discover new lands, but also by Ben’s consulting work in the aerospace industry. Rather than take a fixed job in an office in Chicago, Ben is…
Pushkar, India: sacred lake ~ site of religious festivities
Hindu theology is extra-ordinarily complex, with literally hundreds of gods and demi-gods. However, at the very start, there were just three: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. In this trinity, Brahma is the creator, Vishnu the preserver and Shiva the destroyer. In…
Photographs of The Pushkar Camel Fair ~ India.
After a few days of settling into our life in Pushkar , we start to experience the annual population explosion. The desert area, of course, is starting to build up. What were a few dozen camels have grown to a…
Living in the sacred city of Pushkar, India.
In our now 14 months old Asian adventure, we have redefined for ourselves the definition of “living here”. Whereas there is usually some concept of extended time associated with “living here’, we have come to think of living in a…
Entering Rajasthan ~ from the pink city of Jaipur, to the sacred city of Pushkar
With Ben’s work complete in Delhi, we are ready to pursue an eight year old dream of coming back to Rajasthan. There are times when we have travelled in the past to a far away place, a moment, a time…
A week in Mumbai, India ~ with Brook
Of all the characters who have floated in and out of lives during the six years we lived in Nicaragua, Brook was always the most unpredictable. A knock at the door… and a whirlwind of energy and adventure would enter.…
On a writing assignment in Goa, India.
What started as a one-off writing assignment for a boutique hotel in Bali last year, has blossomed, as I had hoped, into a mini-career track. I now reach out to boutique hotels along our way, and when it fits our…