As I sit with my laptop before me, both connecting me with the world and getting between the two of us, I am more and more aware that while modern life may let us know more people, it does not necessarily let us know them. We get to follow the lives of…
Art breathes new life into everyday things, it forces us to slow down and pay more attention, it makes us see the world, things big and small, in a different way. It brings us together, to discuss, to ogle, to feel, and it sends us away, more alive than before,…
As the saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. And our village, that of Mushekwa, alongside us on the banks of the Zambezi, has many children. Even the children help in raising children. Young boys that reach only to my hips walk with a child propped upon…
There’s nothing like the changing of the seasons to remind us of our place in nature, of what pulls the strings in this relationship between man and earth. It is inescapable, part of each of our lives, whether in the city or the wild, affecting our moods, what we do,…
“Breakfast remains the cornerstone of every trip,” wrote Bill Prince, Deputy Editor of British GQ Magazine, in a recent piece, Breakfast like James Bond, for Relais & Châteaux‘s magazine, Instants. “Now, wherever I am in the world, and wherever I’m staying I’ve become a stickler about how I start day. And for me,…
There is a scene in the film Into the Wild, when Emile Hirsh (playing Christopher McCandless) jumps into a canoe and heads down the Colorado River, riding bubbling rapids through Mexico to the Gulf of California. He goes with no training, no guide, no permit, only desire and a dream. Maybe…
