Paradise in Parque Tayrona

July 28, 2012 by Meghan Johnson

Packing list: One large yellow backpack stocked with six cans of various precooked meats, too many girl clothes, toiletries, and one towel One small red backpack packed with an enviably small and sensible selection of boy clothes and three books 3 liters of water (which would be sweated out in under an hour) and one bottle of coconut flavored rum One plastic grocery bag full of high-sodium and/or high-sugar individually packaged snacks and one roll of toilet paper (Notably absent from above […]

Categories: Colombia, Friendship, Parque Tayrona, Playtime, Santa Marta, The Great Outdoors, Travel

Back on the map

July 21, 2012 by Meghan Johnson

But where exactly? A few months ago during a conversation about ambition and happiness, a friend mentioned that she feared “falling off the map.”  In other words, she feared disappearing off into some corner of the world and becoming irrelevant, however quietly happy that little corner might be.  It’s the “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it…” conundrum for the internet age. In the past few weeks, I have most definitely been […]

Categories: Colombia, Touchy Feelies, Travel