A single mom's travel blog & podcast, chronicling the nomadic adventures of Lainie and Miro as they travel around the world together; Raising Miro on the Road of Life.
Arts & Culture
As Lainie and Miro travel, they have made it their mission to learn as much about the cultures they visit and have discovered, one of the best ways to understand any culture is to explore the arts. In episode #9, Lainie & Miro share their impressions of the art and artifacts they’ve experienced along their journey and share what they’ve learned about Pre-Columbian art history. Also in this episode, Miro & Lainie speak with Mario Lanz, an up & coming Guatemalan artist . Miro …
What does changing the world mean?
How does one go about doing so? How does one quantify, qualify change? Is it even measurable?
While many of us intuitively understand the power of internal change, we are often pre-occupied by examining external changes, ones that can be neatly measured, categorized and owned.
The island was used by the Mayan people as a sanctuary dedicated to Ixchel, the goddess of love and fertility. According to the legend, when the Spanish arrived they found a large number of women statues carved in stone in honor of the goddess, and it is from here that the island gets it’s name “Isla Mujeres” (The Island of Women).
Their place was in the little village called Bullet Tree, located at the foothills of the Maya Mountains and just a couple miles down the road from San Ignacio. In his car we went.
Ok, actually it was the jungle and his name was Clinton.
Originally we were planning on going to Discover Mexico on this afternoon, but when we arrived, it was closed. We had a taxi drop us off at the entrance, just at the road, and when we turned around, he was long gone.
In Episode #8 Lainie & Miro talk about their experiences with the global project known as Couchsurfing.com As longtime Couchsurfers & hosts, they have made many significant friendships through the project, experienced a global community, and provided & received the economic benefits associated with Couchsurfing during travel.
Podcast Episode #7 – The Art and Zen of Motorcycle Guidance [17:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (84)In episode #7 Lainie & Miro take time to honor the friendships they’ve made on their travels as well as reflect together on some of the inner changes that have taken place over the last 400+ days.
Podcast Episode #6 – Modern Day Nomads, Nomadic People and a World of Travelers [28:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (114)In this episode includes Lainie & Miro take a look at what it means to be a “nomad”. The term is commonly used among modern day travelers who find themselves in the midst of long-term travel. This episode explores how travelers define the word “nomad” and address the reasons why we travel.
I received this beautiful email summation of the Conscious Convergence we attended last weekend at Lake Atitlan. David was one of our hosts for the event. With his permission, I am re-posting his description of the weekend here:
The Conscious Convergence ceremony was a magical event on the sacred hill of Tzako’huil, overlooking San Marcos. The globally synchronized meditation was guided at this point of unique synchronicity by Chatty, the founder of the renowned spiritual center “Las Pyramides“.
Many felt the vibration of connectedness with other meditators around the …
This episode includes Lainie & Miro’s experiences at the Conscious Convergence gathering July 17 & 18, honoring beginning of the Mayan 9th Wave on Consciousness, an era of “unity”.
A single mom's travel blog & podcast, chronicling the nomadic adventures of Lainie and Miro as they travel around the world together; Raising Miro on the Road of Life.
Please make yourself comfortable and have a look around, but do know that this site is currently under construction. I decided to start this blog eleven months into our travels, so now I'm playing catch up. Luckily, I had hand written journal entries, tweets, emails to my mom and photographs to help me relive the experiences of the last eleven months. YES, ELEVEN MONTHS OF BLOGGING before I can be back in the present.
So far I have written over sixty posts in a process I call "back-blogging". I have to say, I hate living in any other time except the moment, but it's been an exercise in commitment.
Feel free to take a look around, but know that I know that there's edits to be done, photos to be added, typos to be fixed and galleries to edited, and I'm on it. I'm here, making my way through the past in hopes of being present to experience more adventures Raising Miro.
Thanks for popping in.
-lainie
