I’m not home quite yet, but I can already proclaim that my trip to Colombia was absolutely fantastic and I would go again in a heartbeat! It turns out that the reason my trip to Colombia was so cheap was that I didn’t realize that my return had a long layover in Los Angeles —23 hours—where… Read More It was a fantastic trip!
Yesterday afternoon I spent four hours in a walking tour of Bogotá churches and 95% of the time we spoke Spanish. Woo hoo! It helped that Alejandro, my tour guide, has another life as a professor of English at a government-funded technical school and could gently correct my mistakes. But I think that carrying on… Read More Zipaquirá Salt Cathedral
Don’t misunderstand… this post is not about graffiti ON church buildings! It’s just that today I took two back-to-back walking tours: the first was a tour of graffiti and street art in the La Candelaria district. The other was a walking tour of churches and the Cathedral in downtown Bogotá. I have to give credit… Read More Graffiti and churches
If you think I’ve « gone silent » lately, you might be right. My last post in this blog was about 11 days ago, and just in that short time, I have been, in one word, overwhelmed— by the number of responsibilities and deadlines I am dealing with. Outside of playing for church every Sunday… Read More Not enough hours in the day!