Indelible Adventures

Where does your sense of adventure come from?  Have you ever wondered why we’re wired the way we are…I guess it comes back to the age old question are you born with certain traits and/or dispositions or do you learn and respond to your surroundings and experiences.   Hhhhmmm, it definitely got me thinking this week as I reflected on my venturesome leanings.  I’d like to think I was born with an adventurous spirit, but in reality I suppose its more likely a bit of both - well at least until they decode the genetics to answer this specific question we’ll have to go with that!   Where to go....so many choices?! The more I thought about that question this week the more it puzzled me…you see growing up I had a very limited view of the world and would therefore contend that I had a pretty limited sense of adventure.  But if we take a look at the facts we may discover something else at play here.  Let’s see, (1) The town I ...

What got me thinking about this week’s blog was something an acquaintance said to me after I got back from Italy – they said, “ I want your life ”.   Interesting I thought to myself after the conversation ended, “who dictates what your life is other than you?”…   Unless you’re a believer in reincarnation (and not that there’s anything wrong with that), you only get to live this once so figuring out what you want out of life is pretty central to living a contented and fulfilled life…one with no regrets.   I can see a few of you nodding as you read this. On the dock at Lenno on Lake Como in the Italian Lakes - a TW favorite! This conversation couldn’t have come at a more appropriate time, because after my sixteen days in Italy where I had a lot of time on my hands and spent a good deal of time reflecting on my life to this point and determining no only what’s most important to me but also what’s next. No surprise that admittedly its be...

As you know I’ve been fortunate to travel quite a lot over the years as my many of blogs can attest, but my adventures to India stand out.  Why you ask?  They say once you’ve been to India you do one of two things, you either embrace or you resist it.  If you resist, well it can be a jarring experience full of tough images and emotional challenges.  However, if you embrace India for what it is, then it has a way of getting under your skin, and on some level fall in love with the people and amazing beauty and simplicity of the Indian way on life.  It was just a few short years a go that I had to go to India for business. Prior to getting my shots at the local Vancouver clinic I looked at the map of the world to see what shots I’d likely need.  India was awash with the myriad of things I could contract or be exposed to, looks like I’m going to get them all I thought to myself.  I remember the sense of trepidation as I had every immunization kno...

These past few days I’ve been camped at a hotel just outside the village of Camogli , which is situated on the Liguria coast some 25 km south east of Genoa, Italy.  The actual hotel is high up on a hilltop overlooking the ocean so with spectacular views of the sea and mountains it’s hard to contemplate leaving… Looking towards Genoa at Sunset from the Hotel - the Liguria Coast is a very special place indeed! However, I wanted to tell you about one of my adventure this week.   As usual the sun was shining high in an unbelievably blue sky – “azure” as the locals would say.   I had decided to hike to Portofino via the small and remote village of San Fruttuosco, which is only accessible either by foot or boat.   The hike to Portofino is about 10 km through the Parc di Portofino.  Interestingly the Italian government realized that both the land and sea in this area is a natural wonder to Italy and decided to create both a national and marine...