Two women stroll among the walls of Halebid, built in the 9th century Sharing experiences from travels is a bit like sharing dreams: The iconography and narrative are personal and not well suited for public discourse. So other than sharing the rudimentaries, my report on my time in India will be succinct. A phrase or […]
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In Praise of Travel
“solvitur ambulando”: Walking alongside the Hemis monastery in Ladakh I’ve written many times here about my extreme reliance on travel to enrich and deepen the inner experience of life. As a painter with an expected sensitivity to changes in landscape and terrain, experiencing those radical shifts in venue is part of my ongoing creative process. […]
Destination Lust
Spotted Lake, Canada (Chris Boyle) Zlatni Rat, Croatia (Szabolcs Emich) Great Blue Hole, Belize (USGS) Travel adventure porn: Just dangle a few images of out of the way destinations and the fantasies begin. If you are a person who has similar proclivities, you might enjoy the Los Angeles Times’ slideshow, Bizarre and unusual destinations around […]
Life as a Foreign Language
How is it that one day life is orderly and you are content, a little cynical perhaps but on the whole just so, and then without warning you find the solid floor is a trapdoor and you are now in another place whose geography is uncertain and whose customs are strange? Travelers at least have […]