a life inspired

I have always loved the feelings of home – home is comfort, happiness, warmth, safety, and familiarity.  But now, home is where exactly?  It was here, held in between windows and walls and filled with smells and sounds and feelings.  But now it is empty, full of echos.  I dearly hope that amidst the clamour [...]

…ziploc bags full of medicines…hiking boots…small compact photo albums…USB keys full of files…gortex…fleece…jackets for the rainy season, the dry season, the heat, the cold, the dust, the altitude…compact versions of everything possible…UK pounds and US dollars…camera…airplane snacks…toothbrush…passport…
Travel should be simpler.  It will be a cruel irony when we get there and discover that everything is [...]

I am learning Nepali.  It is hard.  Very hard.  It is a Sanskrit-based language with very curly script characters and a very lilting quality to the sound.  But this beauty doesn’t change the fact that it is hard.  As I struggle to make my basic sounds (we will have language training when we get there [...]

So, I crave information about where we will live when we get to Nepal – I just really want to know what our new home will look like!  For about the first 6 weeks Rex and I will be in training with the VSO Nepal office and what I do know is that we will [...]

I feel like a human pin cushion.  It is rather strange to imagine that floating through my blood stream right now are the following diseases:  Japanese Encephalitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Meningitis, Measles, Mumps, and Rubella. Amazing that the human body can fight all these diseases at once!
Now what I find totally amazing is that [...]

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of [...]