Our Life Walkabout

As a mental health counselor, I work with people’s stories, their stories of life. I would often hear their unheard stories, stories of innocence, tragedy, love, abuse, and sometimes, if I was especially blessed, stories of transformation.

Here’s a few things that I learned in Hong Kong:

Most importantly – When you order spicy soup and there’s 9 different choices ranging from no spice to spice – 9 CHOICES MIND YOU – start off with at [...]

OK you’ve all been waiting for this one I’m sure – it’s the most amazing stupendous valuable travel tip ever. I realized it two weeks into our trip that this indeed is the best advice I could ever write. Here it is…

It’s hitting already how much the rest of the world follows and knows American politics… better than I. This was evident as we saw a billboard with two local S. African news reporters surrounding guess who – Barack Obama!! We also met three men in the first 2-3 days of our trip who were excited [...]

I’ve had several people ask questions lately about how we planned our travel around the world. I also remember being a “planner” (still am) and reading many travel blogs that gave some quick examples of tips and ways to go about it. With this post I want to start to map out a bit of [...]

Erinn and I have met with several friends over the past few weeks and in sharing our plans for the trip we have been amazed at how small the world seems. It seems everyone we meet has some contact in one of our destinations or knows of someone we should talk to who may have [...]

I thought I’d share a story I wrote recently about climbing Mount Rainier with world-renowned climber/guide Dave Hahn (Everest 10 times and counting!)
As most of you know, my good friend Nathan and I just finished summiting Mount Rainier this past weekend. In reflecting on the experience I realized a few things about myself and [...]

I was talking to a colleague this weekend at a conference about her RTW trip experience she had with her husband. They were in their early 40’s and spent 3 yrs. in 3rd world countries. She was excited about our plans and had many stories about her time in Nepal where she volunteered for 6 [...]