Bus-ted
While contemplating being sent to ant heaven by a triple length logging truck at an early age during NZ’s winter, today, I took the bus off of the beautiful coast road south of Napier into Wellington. While cycling in Europe and Asia and now New [...]
Are You My Mongolia? Archive Post 08/20/09
I am cycling through the Gobi desert on my touring bicycle, a place that is as close to a church as you will ever get. It is a strange terrain for a cyclist, a place where spaghetti trails beaten into windswept sand and clay roads [...]
Pine Soul
Images of beautiful pine forests after beautiful pine forest fill my every waking and sleeping thought. Thanks to the history lesson that the Akuhaia-Brown Maori family taught me, I have learned that many parcels of land on the pacific east coast have been forested with [...]
Shalom from The Akuhaia-Brown Maori Family!
Here I am in the southern hemisphere for the first time, where the kindness of the people is familiar. A similar familiarity to growing up in the small town of Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, population 13,000 on Lake Ontario. Back in the day when neighbors borrowed [...]
For The Birds!
So, I am sitting in my tent laughing at the birds outside. It’s like being in a surround sound IMAX auditorium, the volume of the birds singing all around me is so loud that I almost feel like I need earplugs. I haven’t figured out [...]
Cuyler Black
Raised in Ontario, Canada, Cuyler Black has been a teacher, syndicated cartoonist and youth worker. For many summers he directed youth outdoor leadership development camps out on the lakes of Ontario, Canada. Cuyler left full time youth work to start a company called Inherit The [...]
Are You Alone?
I could feel the woman staring at me and I turned towards her smiling. She was older than I had first thought, though it is hard to tell everyone has thick, deeply creased skin. She smiled at the children who were riding my bicycle back [...]