30-liter rucksack packed for 2 1/2 weeks of travel

Packing light

Packing only the necessary is a skill, one which comes with experience strengthened with the number of travels undertaken. Carrying…

View over El Hornillo

The Therapeutic Effect of Trail Running

Within the animal world, humans are physically remarkable primarily for one thing: our ability to run, persistently, over extraordinary distances…

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What Love Requires

I’ve never seen a perfect life. All I see are travelers, students of being, who fill the world with their existence…

View over the Teide

The Mental Benefits of Deep Breathing

A great majority of people will say that life is accelerating the older they get, that the years seem to…

Painting by Per (Pelle) Adolf Swedlund [1865-1947]

The People who Teach Us

As we move through life, we may encounter people in unexpected ways, forming bonds we never anticipated. Sometimes these connections…