Ooooh, if good wishes made a difference... and it turns out they do. I got GREAT advice from friends far and wide on my "Boohoo, I'm homesick" post last week. Amazing folks with great council and some of it very targeted while other recommendations were slightly...
Travel
But, what shall I write about?
I'm not on the move anymore - my home is here in Bogota. I don't know if I can convey how weird that is. In point of fact, I'm not sure I'm entirely in favor! How do people do this, all over the world, all the time, but for me I feel like a fish out of water? Now I...
Facatativa and Finca la Pepita
Facatativa, or Faca, is where I went last weekend. The lady who gave me a facial has a sister-in-law who is really into bicycling and they invited me up for the day. It's an hour outside Bogota. There were six of us in the group - the sister-in-law, a guy who owns a...
Birthday Missive
A lot has happened in the past three weeks, since last I posted. I flew to DC, and saw Kyna before she headed to an out-of-town conference. She wanted my help in thinking about her work! It was cool. It's as if I were evaluating something related to health, and needed...
This. Is. The Place
I got the apartment I wanted in Bogota. It's so lovely. It's light and airy like being in a plane or on a boat, navigating the city from the seventeenth floor. This is the view toward the mountains. The apartment hasn't been lived in recently, and when I moved in...
One week in Bogota
My first week in Bogota ended last Sunday with a spin through the city - on Sundays, the city closes down many major avenues and they fill up with people on bikes, people on rollerblades, people with dogs, people in wheelchairs, looky-loo tourists, police officers in...
How To Do Your Laundry in Pakistan
Head out to the store and buy some "washing-up powder." Enjoy this step. It is cutesy in that English-accented way. It is also the last step that will be at all straightforward. Read the manual for the new machine, all white and shiny, sitting on your balcony. In...
New temporary digs
The company I work for here in Pakistan has kept me and half a dozen others in a hotel for nearly seven months - telling us we'd "soon" be moving into some lovely furnished apartments. But it never happened, there was always some obstacle - leasing, furniture,...
How To Spend Money You Didn’t Know You Had, In London, In 48 Hours or Less
Question: If you've got about 48 hours of awake time in London and want to see things you read about in guidebooks, shop at the special stores available only there, taste the meals of amazing and reknowned chefs, all the while traipsing tourist pathways and staying in...
Back to Pak
Yes, of course, very busy, blah blah blah; however, I have been making a roundhouse effort NOT to work too much or spend too much time in front of the computer. I've just gotten back from several weeks in Pakistan - in time for the holidays - and I can tell the...