According to Plan
Written by ry on July 28th, 2008
Life never really works out the way that I plan (which is why I’ve largely given up on planning altogether). The last time I dropped a post on this blog, I was about to hit the road for what turned into an 14 month global tour of fun and adventure that included 18 countries, 78 separate flights, 79 different beds and approximately 125,000 photos. I know I had promised that I would blog as much as I could, but, sadly reality is rarely as easy I imagine and the prospect of getting a post up from Carracollo, Bolivia; Preah Vihear, Cambodia or Mulanje, Malawi was a little more than I could handle while trying to keep up with booking tickets, finding translators, trying to keep airport security goons from confiscating my cameras and securing a steady flow of delicious cups of tea (it’s all about the priorities).
But I do have some fun stories about a radio station in Soloy, Panama; a community bank run by pre-teens outside of Kathmandu, Nepal; youth building community gardens in Kiribati; and the village of Billimbing Besi in Sarawak where 90% of the residents are Baha’is. I’ll try to make real posts out of these and more, but in the mean time, after a couple of months of recuperating on my couch, I’m back on the road. This time I’m keeping the wanderings confined to my homeland of Canada, from Vancouver to Halifax and numerous ports in between. Given that I rarely do things in anything close to a logical manner, I’m starting in Ottawa. Which, I suppose is actually logical, given it’s the capital and all.
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