A man recently felt moved to write to me about my risk assessment and management skills. A man I don’t know. He didn’t comment publicly on the post that had inspired him to write* – presumably he felt his subject was so delicate that it should be addressed privately.
He opened his message with his credentials: [...]
When I started this blog I didn’t really envisage myself still on the road three years later. The name I chose at the time – 1000 WORDS – was a nod to the photo and video projects I had been involved in with young people in different parts of the world which I imagined might [...]
Santa Catalina is a fishing village circled by real estate sharks. There is already blood in the water and so it is only a matter of time before the feeding frenzy begins in earnest.
But right now you can still meet a surfer from Devon there who attended the same boarding school as Winston Churchill yet [...]
I have spent the last three or four weeks watching the sea. The rise and fall of the tides; an endless ebb and flow. A constantly shifting surface comprised of liquid light and the sky, stirred by random eddies and hidden currents.
It has put me in a reflective state of mind.
I wonder why I am [...]
Bocas del Toros can only be described with a slew of tourist brochure cliches.
A scattering of islands, each one bordered by pristine beaches, fringed by swaying coconut palms, monkeys, sloths and birds above in the forest canopy. The echoing throbbing roar of a distant troupe of howler monkeys.
Fingers of light and shadow shoot across the [...]
An series of major tragedies and minor disasters, that are not mine to share, cause our collective vision of a shared La Moskitia single track adventure to unravel at Casa Kiwi outside Trujillo.
Tagged friends, honduras, things breakRecently I’ve discovered podcasts and one that I particularly like is Radiolab. According to their own website Radiolab is:
…where sound illuminates ideas, and the boundaries blur between science, philosophy, and human experience. Big questions are investigated, tinkered with, and encouraged to grow…
The style is something you will either love or loathe – personally, I’m in [...]
People in Guatemala are very poor.
Tagged guatemala, miscellaneaThe impossible enormity of the task of attempting to record everything disheartens me. Seemingly indelible images unfold before my eye in a constant stream – vivid and fresh – but by the end of the day they are faded and dull, lost in the vast ocean of impressions.
The flash of a bright yellow-orange [...]
Riding the freeway across a flat desolate industrial area of Vera Cruz, I wrestle with the fundamental existential dilemma: Is enjoying yourself essentially the same as not enjoying yourself? Somewhat reluctantly I reach the conclusion that it is probably so.
So I wonder why I only wish to record the pleasing and the beautiful here – [...]