I live in Galapagos.

It feels so freaking COOL to get to say that.

I could stop posting there.

It would be true and it could be enough. 

Secret... It hasn't been all boobies and tortoises here though. It hasn't been only a paradise. 

Nothing ever is 100% any one thing though 

right? The cynical would ask me, "what did you expect?" Or talk about how going back to work after 4 months of 'vacation' would be difficult for anyone. Let alone in another country.

It's a beautiful place.

I want to tell you all about it.

The good and the bad. The beautiful paradise and the 3rd world. My physical paradise and mental hell.

-Rachel 

I've heard good things about this school

If I had a yen to hit SE Asia, I'd definitely take a look at this organization.

http://www.hess.com.tw/en/

Does anyone have any other recommendations?

-Rachel

Starting again in Salento, Colombia

It's been a while.

I couldn't write.

I'd say that I was busy, but that's not the whole truth.

I couldn't write.

I've been hiking up ridiculously high mountains in Peru, visiting Bolivia's beautiful Salar de Uyuni, learning Spanish in Cusco, celebrating Christmas with new friends and flying to Colombia to salsa into 2015 with old new friends. I've also been thinking. Stewing. Marinating. Talking it out. Starting to watercolor paint.

And today I started my journal again.