Having traveled solo around the world, I love the peace and tranquility of  staying in an area and “feeling” a culture or city. My poor husband rarely gets to go on trips with me, and when he does, he will fly in and spend the last few days with me. I am lucky to be […]
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Inspired in Nicaragua by Raw Food Chef Karen Hall
I met Raw Food Chef Karen Hall in Nicaragua at a Gracious Living Raw Food Surf Yoga Retreat. Karen had been on a world tour for 20 months seeking out places to enhance, stretch, flex, and expand her healthy living and raw food knowledge. Somehow I wasn’t terribly surprised when I learned of her […]
The Day I met the Sapote Fruit
Stay with the locals. It is sort of obvious. You traveled a long distance to go somewhere else. You wanted a change of pace and a new experience. Stay with the locals. The people that look like you that come from the same place, lead similar lifestyles and create microcosms of where they come from […]