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 …

Although the Life Rocks Unschooling Conference ended just a few days ago, the experience left Miro and I completely changed forever. We are both putting together our posts about our experiences, but for now, Miro and I are resting and trying to recover from the flu. But in the meantime, we wanted to share with you a video of our talk we gave at the Life Rocks Unschooling Conference in New Hampshire, on April 4th, 2013.

Together, Miro and I wrote our script for our talk. We rehearsed and practiced our presentation countless …

We live on a budget. A small budget.
We travel on even a smaller budget. Our lives have changed drastically over the last 4 years, but that’s a choice we’ve made. Together, we’ve become comfortable with living with less, living frugal and the best part, working less. Our quality of life has gone up drastically, but our bank balance has gone down. Drastically.
So, when Miro and I were asked to present our story about life-learning, world-schooling and travel at the Life Rocks Conference in New Hampshire, we were so excited …

 
Connecting Communities
Two years later, I sat down with David of ProjectNuevoMundo.org, and the organizer of the 2010 Conscious Convergence in Guatemala that we attended in Guatemala. I speak with Dave about his ideas of intentional communities, eco-villages, sustainability, indigenous communities, plant medicines including ayahuasca, and holding a vision to create a new forms of energy exchange.

 
We featured Dave in a Podcast Episode #5 – Community, Sustainability & Alternate Forms of Energy Exchange
Exploring new models for sustainable living and creating a community of unity.
This episode includes Lainie & Miro’s experiences at the Conscious Convergence gathering July 17 & 18, honoring …

Here in Cusco Peru, volunteer-tourism is a large contributor to the overall tourism economy. We were luck to meet an American college student who was concerned about all the different aspects of this form of tourism and is writing her senior thesis on the subject.

What happens when you lead your life through inspiration and inspiration strikes?
Well, you have to follow it, of course!
“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
~Joseph Campbell
Earlier this year, Miro and I visited the Sacred Valley, here in Peru to experience the beauty, nature, history and ancient wisdom and received more than we ever expected.
Both Miro and I were so moved, we did not expect such a profound experience as a result of being in a “place”.  And for me,  my interest in archeology guided my desire to explore deeper than …