Introduction

Lifesurfing is allowing the wave of time, acquaintances, experiences, places, and energies to flow around, through, over and under you without judgment, regret or fear. Sometimes you “hang ten,” sometimes you “get tubed” and sometimes you wipe out . Still working on my skills, but the goal is to ride with great joy.  We select our vehicles on this ride to experience joy. Sometimes it’s a surfboard, or your physical strengths, your talent, your art, your brilliant mind, your love of God, country and family. While I find joy all over the place, for me, travelling and learning from all cultures is the vehicle I was given. I was born with it, it’s part of me and impossible to ignore. The earth is my home and I want to see all the rooms.

My mom has a picture of my first venture out. I was 5 years old and had set a small suitcase,  my Annie Oakley boots and a cowgirl hat outside my bedroom door – prepared to take off when everyone was sleeping.

Through my life I looked deeply into the beliefs of my human family and discovered the common thread among them- and found the differences to be self aggrandizing ego and mythology. I’m not much like my dear friends, many whose beliefs I once also held, but that’s just fine because we meet in the common thread of compassionate caring.

These themes are in my favorite quotes:

"Keep on knocking and the happiness inside will throw open a window to see who's there"

“The mystic hears the music within, the hypnotized merely plays another's phonograph."

"The body learned from the spirit how to travel."

"Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment."


I've been to 27 countries so far. On April 11 the journey to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Mumbai begins. This blog was started to record the trip.

I hope you will find joy in my ventures as  I do in learning about your ride.