Landing at 2am and waiting for you backpack for an hour is not the most ideal situation in any country. In this instance it allowed for me to make friends with some of my fellow passengers and get some hot tips on how to approach the next 6 weeks in Peru. I was super stoked to have landed in a new country, knowing that there was a cab driver from the hostel waiting for me and I’d soon be asleep and have three days to explore Lima. I had a lot of energy for 2am as I’m sure you can imagine. During this waiting period, I exchanged emails with my…

  Life had been very full since I last posted an update. I started writing about my adventures w Lisa when she came for an action packed week in Alberta, and how I seem to go on all these fabulous dates w friends from all over the world (rough existence, I know!) – turns out that was about 2 months ago!  Things haven’t changed much, I continue to have a wonderful time, sometimes planned, sometimes spontaneous, with old and new friends every day.  There has been a large amount of travel in between for me, all centred around the wonderous and mysterious Peru (even more mysterious when you don’t speak…

Now that we have all had a slight existential thought process for the day, what will you do with it!?     In line with the revelation that I have some of the funnest people in my life (world wide, not continent defined which makes things even more exciting) I have been reflecting on the things that are most valuable to my time allocation. It’s not surprising that time spent with people make the top of my list for things I find personally fulfilling. Beyond that I’ve realised that the people who let me hang out with them are up to incredibly fun things. How great that I get to be…

  I have had a lot of time on my hands the past two weeks….Kinda. Turns out I can make being a social butterfly a full time position. Who would have guessed?! I was sitting on the couch and realised that I was weeks away from doing yoga practice for multiple hours per day and for a 3 week period. It seemed logical that I should get back into doing some yoga between meeting up with people. Enter my new love – Iyengar yoga. Iyengar yoga focuses on the alignment and breath within the asana. This is interesting as it’s the completely different focus of the yoga course happening in Peru…