Travis told a story at the foot of Machu Picchu that has stayed with me ever since. I had asked whether being a soldier in Iraq changed him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“We are edged with mist. We make insubstantial territories.”
Larry's life changed when he took his very first hike into the paradise at the bottom of the Grand Canyon in his fifties. I asked what prompted that fateful trip ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“Hope is like a path in the countryside. At first there’s nothing, but as people walk that way, a path appears.”
Gloria longed to visit Peru and climb Machu Picchu, like so many of us. I asked what happened when she got to Cusco ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Also, a very special thanks to Carlos Molina Rojas for providing the opening music. You can hear more of his band, Grupo Sonkoy, on Youtube by clicking.
“One is drawn irresistibly onward by ever-recurring surprises through a deep, winding gorge, turning and twisting past overhanging cliffs of incredible heights.”
Tony rode freight trains for nine years, picking up a wife, a son, and a dog along the way. I met him and his dog, Pig, on a Greyhound bus ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Wisdom listens.”
Kathy oversees the English Language Academy at DePaul University, where international students transition into a new culture and a second or third or fourth language. I asked her to come tell us how their stories have changed her at our very first live show at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Special thanks to the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum too.
“Medicine is the meaningful work found in the mutual exchange between people.”
Anne moved from Indonesia to South Korea to Chicago, where we sat down with her in front a live audience at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to discuss a very visible change that travel caused in her ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Distilling is beautiful.”
Mike left the U.S. with his wife and kids to learn Spanish and build a church in Spain. I asked which beliefs survived the journey and which didn't ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“One of you spoke words of warm consolation for my traveling thousands of miles of sea over such a long period to come to your country.”
Jay has so many stories I didn't know where to begin. A pilgrimage in Japan. A pilgrimage in Spain. A cathedral in France. A temple in Korea. I asked how these discoveries have changed him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Walked all day and the next day. The road straight, grey, dusty, and trafficless.”
On Sunday, October 1 from 4:00 to 7:00 pm, we'll gather our friends and listeners at the Hull-House Dining Hall in downtown Chicago to record our first live episode! Special guest Kathy Larson will share stories of international students' and her own cross-cultural encounters from DePaul University's English Language Academy and beyond. If you're interested in bringing a snack, let me know.
"The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is located on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, 800 S. Halsted Street, Chicago. It is easily reached by public transportation using the UIC Halsted stop on the Blue Line or the Halsted Bus (#8), or via the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) and the Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90). Parking is available at Halsted and Taylor Street garage.
"Parking is available at Halsted and Taylor Street garage across the street for $4.50 for up to 30 min. to $13.00 for all day, depending upon day of the week, time of day, and length of stay. Visit the UIC Parking Services website for more details."
Hope to see you there!
Daniel took me to the cafe in Buenos Aires where Borges used to read stories to his mother. I asked what it was like to immigrate to the US and then back to Argentina again, and how he ended up in Sicily along the way ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“The fox makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction.”
Liz sat down with me on the steps of Oslo Sentralstasjon before departing further north to the Svalbard archipelago to look for polar bears. I asked what it's like being a diplomat from New Zealand ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Camarón que se duerme se lo lleva la corriente.”
Cafemin is a way station in Mexico City on the migrant route from Latin America to the US. I asked the director how people change when they rest there ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“I feel always below the grace of their behavior the instinctive, primeval hatred of the stranger.”
Maria is a translator from the south of Spain. I asked whether there's ever been an idea she couldn't get across ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“A word spoken by chance might have strange consequences.”
Fred and I traveled to Cádiz for Carnaval together. On the way back he told me how New Caledonia changed his life. I asked what it's like to work in Paris's equivalent of the TSA ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Tal vez el lugar que añoro nunca existió.”
Saundra always used to get lost when she was a kid. Now she's on a quest to get to 100 countries. We spoke at Wish Willy's, a jerk chicken specialist's in Caye Caulker, Belize, which was her 79th country. I asked how her quest has changed her ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“There is nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.”
Kenneth came to the Nobel Museum in Stockholm expecting more artifacts but ended up leaving one of his own. I asked how in the world he met Jorge Luis Borges ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“I deplore the fact that you have not yet received a Nobel Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less, like me, who am only an adventurer.”
Jarrod Brown recently became a citizen of Honduras, the culmination of a two-decade transformation that began with one fateful overseas trip. He is the founder of Mission Lazarus, a non-profit organization that seeks to transform people’s lives through Jesus and through action. Jarrod's led a life full of travel stories, so I hardly knew where to begin, except of course, to ask what happened to him ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Danny is from near my hometown, just outside Chicago, but we met sitting on top of a 125 foot stone temple that peeks out of thick jungle. I asked what he'd take away from his trip to Guatemala ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
Danny highly recommends that you visit El Remate, Guatemala.
“Did not Columbus himself set sail because he had read Marco Polo’s narrative?”
Sune takes care of a Mayan ceremonial site on a tiny lake in Guatemala that's ringed by volcanoes. A famed spiritual energy there attracts hippies, tourists, local faithful, and other seekers. We spoke, by chance, in Copenhagen, where he summers. Since I've been to those fire rings in Lago de Atitlán too, I asked what the coincidence of our meeting in Denmark could mean ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“Amo el amor de los marineros que besan y se van ...”
Dakota was intentionally trying to get lost at the Art Institute of Chicago. I asked what he looked like ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé.
“One of us will talk, the other will listen.”
