Hmmm, something I wasn't really expecting was the re-adjustment when you get back 'home' from travelling. Whether almost a year like me or four weeks away as my daughter did, we both felt our head was full of air, space, cotton wool - just unable to fully focus back on reality! It has taken me weeks …
Author: jaycm6
I have a travel blog clearmindthinking.wordpress.com re my solo backpacking trip in 2015-16 and clear cards and made greeting cards I have been making since 2007 along with Gardens of Galastrial air dry models.
Finding inspiration all around you…
As a motivational coach, motivation is what motivates me! Inspiration is part of that, something that ‘turns you on’ and gets you all excited and in flow! Memes do that for me sometimes, and for others, as Facebook is full of them to read and share!But what else can motivate or inspire you? Well, lots …
Spanish Tales
Backtracking on my travels, now, I have yet to finish blog posts for every place I visited. So backtracking indeed, I ended up in Spain before my return to the UK so here are some tales of my time there. I had to land in Madrid from S. America - Lima, Peru to be precise. …
One year ago today …
ONE YEAR AGO today, I was setting off on my travel year! I was actually going to live my dream of 30+ years, and backpack solo around a chunk of this big, wide world we live in! My photo at Larcomar in the City of Condors, Lima, Peru I knew one day I would go, …
Relaxed Rio…
Rio de Janeiro, and in fact all of Brazil, was quieter than I had expected. From Iguassu Falls, just over the border from Peru, arriving from the Amazon via Lima, was a quiet town - tourists abounded on the buses to the falls, both in Brazil and Argentina (yes, it is to long it spreads into …
Unfolding secret histories!
Today, 6th July 2016, almost a year on from starting my years travel, I met up with a friend Ray and his wife Khammah, who I stayed with in Ubon Ratchathani last September. When I visited them in Khamma's village where they live and have a house (Ray spends some time here in the UK …
Settling back…??
Well, am I settling back? I'm trying. It does actually feel - as most people say - that I have not been away, sadly. The rain and cold doesn't help, and this is still summer here! The local area I left from, and lived in always, is still the same as are most people there …
Homeward Bound
So, 10 months on from leaving the UK I am on my way home via Spain, where my last flight would leave from in Madrid, and Ibiza where Im meeting my daughters for a weeks holiday together - catching up, reviewing our year apart and chilling together. Or partying....! So exactly? I left on 31st …
Rio beaches…
So there is the city of Rio de Janeiro and its four main beaches, and then at Paraty (para-chi) where there are other beaches I visited on a day tour. The waves were crashing and it was dramatic, on rocky beaches all along the stretch from below the waterfall at Trinidade (trini-daje) at Cephilo. …
Paratay beach jumping
I saved a fish today! Went in the trip to the beaches ( really all one beach,,), walking along one with Jo the guide, she pointed out a beached fish gasping for water....so I picked it up, paddled in to the sea, and put it in deeper water but not above the waves and it …
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