In honor of Valentines Day here is a photo of Antonio and me at the top of Nyiragongo volcano in Virunga National Park in the eastern part of DRC. This was a challenging hike up the side of a very steep and high volcano. It took us about six hours with regular breaks. The eastern …
This is a photo I took with my mother’s new-at-the-time iPhone on a trip we took to Nosara in March of 2015. To this day it is still my favorite photo that I have taken there (I plan to one-up it soon). Today we are heading back to Nosara for the foreseeable future. It has been a …
Rumi is one of those poets that has the power to bring you into the magic with just a few words. Things have been rather chaotic lately with my being pregnant and moving from Congo to Costa Rica. We’ve been taking little breaks here and there to sit and read Rumi’s poems to our unborn …
I first went to Costa Rica for a 7-day new year’s yoga retreat with Shiva Rea, a teacher of mine from my days in Los Angeles. We did yoga a few times a day and spent the rest of our day surfing and finding peace in the quiet jungle. One morning during class she told …
Hol-y shit. I just found the mother-load. I found an entire hard drive full of photos that I thought I had lost. My first attempts at photography from my travels to Egypt, Israel, Nepal and India. Also, the first solo travels that I ever took and that got me addicted to the life of exploration. …
I just finished reading this heartwarming book, The Penguin Lessons by Tom Michell. It’s the author’s true story of rescuing an oil-soaked Magellan penguin from a beach in Paraguay and subsequentially keeping it as a pet and school mascot. The two become the best of friends and illustrate the magical bond that can sometimes develop between …
There is nothing more magical than finding your people in all corners and maintaining and nurturing those friendships as the years move you on and around the world. My loved ones dot the globe, and together they form a net that brings this world in for me, that makes it feel full of goodness and …
Traveling through Namibia has definitely brought up some ever present, deep seated issues with fear. Add a dose of pregnancy to the mix and you get a crazy, anxious woman following you around telling you to put on your shoes and stay inside after dark. It’s the animals. I never knew my fear of getting …
My partner and I did an impromptu maternity shoot at sunset just after our arrival in Sesriem Canyon last night. We made the four hour journey from the coastal town of Swakopmund to Sossusvlei yesterday, passing through Namib-Naukluft National Park. This gravel road winds like a roller coaster through canyons and plains, gorgeous terrain but …