Explorations through the lens of my camera
As always, one of my  greatest joys when I travel is walking around, getting lost, and taking photos. I love seeing places for the first time with fresh eyes and find beauty  in the mundane. This is Part 2 of a two part photo essay of Lowell, Massachusetts. (Be sure to check out Part 1 of this series here.)
New England – Lowell – A Photo Essay Part 2

Explorations through the lens of my camera
As always, one of my  greatest joys when I travel is walking around, getting lost, and taking photos. I love seeing places for the first time with fresh eyes and find beauty  in the mundane. This is Part 1 of a two part photo essay of Lowell, Massachusetts.  Part 2 is here.
New England – Lowell – A Photo Essay Part 1

What is the point of traveling for us?
Cultural exchange. Learning. Growing. Experiencing. Connecting.
That’s why we travel. That’s why we couch surf.
Our first stop on our crazy six week trip before the conference, we were invited to couch surf with a family who lived in the quaint community of Lowell. We love couchsurfing with families and have done so many times throughout our travels in Latin America. But we’ve never couchsurfed in the United States, so I thought this would be not only a great reentry back into the US, but …

I’m extremely empathic.  Normally, I feel the emotional energy around me from people and places. In other other words, I’m emotionally intuitive. No, I don’t read minds, nor can tell fortunes, but I am very sensitive to energy.  I’ve learned to manage this throughout my life. I even used this to my advantage professionally, when I worked in branding, but that’s a completely different story for another time.
But I’ll get to how this relates to our travels, in just a second…
If you remember, we were in Washington DC at the beginning of our crazy 6 week trip through the States. …

We hope you forgive us for not updating our blog often during our travel-roller-coaster, but we are taking our time now to rejuvenate, rest and get caught up in our beloved Cusco. Miro and I are clear, we really do prefer slow travel to the quick city hopping and are so grateful to be back in the closest place we have to call home.

Both of us are busy now, focused on writing about our experiences, preparing new posts, editing photos and video for you. But that takes a little time too. So this, being our first update post since we’ve returned from our 6 week travel marathon, we wanted to share with you some quick updates and ask for your assistance with one of our projects.

Thank you for taking the time to take our survey.
We are so grateful for your input.
If you are familiar with the project Miro and I created call Project Unschool Peru, please skip ahead to the survey now.
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If this is your first time here’s a brief description of the project:
PROJECT UNSCHOOL PERU
Project Unschool Peru is a retreat that centers around the magic of co-creation of a “learning community” and embodies the spirit of “unschooling” in Peru. Therefore it is a retreat and an educational gathering. Never …