The adventure may be over, but this blog isn't

For the past, oh, year and a half—basically since its creation—this blog has sort of fallen by the wayside. I like to blame graduate school applications, third-world infrastructure, and our fancy for spending time in the wilderness. It would have been wonderful to inform the world of what we were doing, as we were doing it, to reassure our friends and family that we hadn’t fallen into the ocean and not climbed back out, and to share all the amazing things we were seeing and learning. Sadly, that could not be. I feel, though, that those things are still worth sharing, even if some of them happened months ago.

That’s why I intend to keep up this blog for a while. Partially, I will write for the few curious people out there who may still want to know what the hell we were doing all that time. More importantly, as that gulf that separates the past from the present grows and the bold ship of my recent adventure sails off leaving me stranded here on the shore of my increasingly normal daily life, I want to write about my experiences so that I myself can remember them—so that I can see the places again, feel the excitement of learning, stand again in the presence of things mysterious and foreign. Hopefully by re-adventuring in the world of memory I can find something I missed the first time and extract even a bit more wisdom or inspiration.

I also hope to get some more pictures and maps and other interesting things on here, make it sort of, you know, worth reading.

Let’s see how this goes.