I've ridden a motorcycle through moutainous, rural Honduras. I've spent a couple weeks camping and playing group games with 40 Honduran youth. I've snorkeled in the calmest, bluest, clearest Carribean water imaginable to look at fish and coral that are beautiful and fascinating beyond imagination. I've washed myself with water from a bucket while looking up at a million stars out in a village in central Benin. I've gone running across dunes in the Sahara at 4:30 in the morning and watched the sun rise. I've ridden my bike 130 miles in a day to prove to myself and the people who know me that alternative travel over any distance is possible. I've gone skinny dipping in the unbelievably pristine volcano surrounded Lake Atitlan of Guatemala.

the world outside but also including the US and its people, community, people, appropriate technology, bicycles, small-scale farming, hippies, deep and open friendships, pottery, photography, music, sunbathing naked.....one day