Every year as students run out the double doors of school after following the last final exam onto summer jobs and family vacations, I pursue my summer goal, leave the country. I try to visit a new country every year. Sometimes it happens, other times it does not. Occasionally, a summer will present multiple summer travel possibilities. This is one of those summers. Each trip is unique.
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Leading up to a year and a half in Peru and Bolivia, a visiting priest, either in ignorance or false hyperbole, described the poverty and struggles of Peru. “All they had to offer us was cuy or our guinea pig. That’s all they had to eat.”
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Invariably during the year, often during cold winters, a basic sensation floods my being. It’s the desire, maybe even a deep innate need, to travel and simply move. This impulse doesn’t require a year-long trip, but it must place me in new surrounds that alert my senses with a divergence from the daily grind. That is why I travel.
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Bucket lists. Everyone has one. Mine seems to expand with each National Geographic article, Instagram photo, and Facebook family trip I see. So you could say I have continent bucket lists. Thus, my best Bucket List ideas.
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My Annie B stayed home today from school. Come to find out at the doctor’s office she had ear infections in both ears. Double whammy. Maybe that’s why she hasn’t listened to me for the last four years. We played UNO. Midway through our second game, the mail truck stopped at the top of the street. Immediately Annie sat up straight. She walked to the window and said, “Oh, he’s cute!” The mail carrier shuffled along looking at his bag of credit card offers and supermarket ads.
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In 2012, I decided to spend my 40th birthday doing some things that I love. Thus the idea of cycling around Belgium to various Trappist monasteries and drinking their delicious homemade brew was born.
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After reading George Couros’ book “Innovator’s Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent, and Lead a Culture of Creativity”, it made me reconsider how I would start of the year with my beginning of the year questionnaire for my students.
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The Pink Elephant in the Cafe Our final day of group riding was also our shortest. From the sparsely population of Chimay