places I have traveled

Peru

In October 2015, I went to Peru, South America for 6 weeks. I visited my missionary friends while I was there, collecting stories.

Favourite posts from Peru: 

• The story of Aaron Platzlu, the day old baby
• I keep falling in love
• When I met generosity
• Finding Jesus at Machu Picchu
• Church on a concrete floor

Uganda

In May of 2015, I went to Uganda, Africa for two weeks. I was there with the organization Save The Mothers -- an organization I'm incredibly fond of. I visited maternity wards in hospitals, and met many mothers and their babies. I fell in love with the women of our world there.

Favourite posts from Uganda: 

• Eve (and the unnamed baby)
• Learning the cost of one life

Rwanda

I went to Rwanda, Africa for 2 months in the summer of 2013. It was a ten year dream that actually came true. It was in Rwanda where I began blogging, and it was in Rwanda where I fell in love — both with Africa and with Jesus. I was there under the organization International Teams. I ran an art day camp there, where I taught the kids singing and my friend taught them to dance.

Favourite posts from Rwanda: 

• Painting nails and washing feet
• Practicing forgiveness

Mexico

In 2011, I went to Baja, Mexico and helped run a camp at Rancho Genesis.

bucket list 

1. Go to Africa ✓
2. Travel to every continent
3. Take a picture of every "Welcome To" sign in the United States
4. Take a bath in rose petals
5. Ride an elephant
6. Take a mud bath
7. Ride in a gondola
8. Go in hot springs
9. Learn to ballroom dance
10. Go on an RV road trip
11. Visit a convent
12. Go to a Mass ✓
13. Plant a vegetable garden
14. Kiss in the rain
15. Write a rap ✓
16. Be on the radio
17. Attend a hoedown
18. Be a DJ for the night
19. Plant a tree
20. Scream at the top of my lungs at the Grand Canyon
21. Create a stained glass window
22. Go scuba diving
23. Have a photo shoot in a field of wheat
24. Drink tea in England
25. Swim with dolphins
26. Dye my hair ✓
27. Drink coffee in Italy
28. Ride in a hot air balloon
29. Adopt a child
30. Create an ice cream flavour
31. Go on a cruise
32. Taste octopus
33. Ride a motorcycle ✓
34. Be in a musical ✓
35. Paint a mural ✓
36. Pick a bouquet of wildflowers
37. Go to a roller rink ✓
38. Get a makeover
39. Drink milk out of a coconut -- with a straw ✓
40. Send a message in a bottle ✓
41. Make up a new saying ✓
42. Ride in a horse drawn carriage
43. Walk in a rain forest ✓
44. Own a bird ✓
45. Set someone up on a blind date
46. Go into a pyramid
47. Hold a koala bear
48. Learn to French braid ✓
49. Do graffiti
50. Go sailing
51. Write and illustrate a children's book
52. Visit an orphanage
53. Go to Greece
54. Eat Belgium chocolate ✓
55. Go on a (real) road trip
56. Watch a show on Broadway ✓
57. Go to the Olympics
58. Hitchhike somewhere
59. Hand out yellow flowers on a rainy day
60. Learn guitar ✓
61. Throw a huge New Years Eve party
62. Start the wave at a sports game
63. Finish an entire tube of chapstick
64. Write a song ✓
65. Ride in a taxi ✓
66. Go to New York City ✓
67. Go to a drive in movie theatre ✓
68. See Les Miserables on stage ✓
69. Get a massage ✓
70. Write a book ✓
71. Go on an African safari ✓
72. Be in Paris at midnight
73. Eat crab cakes in Maine