From The Belly of a Traveler: Writers block

I made it to Machu Picchu, but my shoes didn't.

After 325 days of living out of a bag I'm not surprised. Travel is expensive, and it's always way more expensive than you imagine. There are unforeseen fees, unexpected plane rides, taxi rides, visas, reciprocity fees (up to $160 per country). If there was ever a time to support this project, now is the time, help a dancer out, throw me a few bucks, whatever you can give, and get those laces on my boots and some new soles under my feet. Remember your donations will help me focus on what I set out to do: document ATS® around the world, so come along for the ride. All proceeds go to keeping me (and you) on the road! Ready to donate? Just click the fancy little bubble below, THANK YOU!

Cohorts (Donors)

Olivia Alston-Prince

Sandy "Wooster" Woo~CA

Elba Sanchez Short~CA

Elana Brutman~CA

Amira Mohtaseb~Germany

Alicia Fourie~UK

Margot Ponzoni~France

Laura Angueyra~Colombia

Shannon Mathey~CA
Cat Christine Ellen~CA
Bonita MacDuffee~OR
Evangeline L Feary~Australia
Philippa Gebhard~UK
Kellee Brown~Australia
Martha Saunders~Germany
Bernice Lee~CA
Project Shimmy~MO
Danielle Lottridge~Canada
Melania Madrigal~Florida
Carrie Moore~Alaska
Don~USA
Rhiannyn~Canada
Helen Keskitalo~Sweden
Annabelle and Yi~Canada
Angelina Peterson~Canada
Suzanne Scott~CA
Hadley Northrop~CA
Elina Wannberg~Sweden
Homirah Amiri~Ca
Zina~Kansas
Daniel Holzer~CA
Margaret Walker~Australia
Nancy Young~CA

Kimberly Connor~Florida

Stockinger Bettina~Germany
Mareike Beiersdorf~Germany
Nancy B Knight~Alabama
Cindy Moon Bear of Malidoma drum and dance~WA
MANDRAGORA TRIBAL ~Spain

Meditations

"You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes"

~Winnie the Pooh

"Such objects made up the daily luggage of this eternal traveler, rootless soul who made his home in dance studios, rehearsal rooms, and on stages around the world."

“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days, such a humorless little prig. Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me. When it comes to dying even. Nothing ponderous, or portentous, or emphatic. No rhetoric, no tremolos, no self conscious persona putting on its celebrated imitation of Christ or Little Nell. And of course, no theology, no metaphysics. Just the fact of dying and the fact of the clear light. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling, on tiptoes and no luggage, not even a sponge bag, completely unencumbered.”
— Aldous Huxley, "Island"

"A true journey is much more than a vivid or vacant interval of being away. The best travel was not a simple train trip or even a whole collection of them, but something lengthier and more complex: an experience of the fourth dimension, with stops and starts and longueurs, spells of illness and recovery, hurrying then having to wait, with the sudden phenomenon of happiness as an episodic reward."
– Paul Theroux, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star

"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
~Lao Tzu

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
~Anais Nin

"For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse it's full length. and there I travel, looking, looking breathlessly."
~Don Juan

"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."
—Wisdom of Confucius

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