Hi, I am Anne.

This website consists of travel journals and some random observations interspersed between trips; though you will probably learn more about me from the pages of this site, here are some things that I like:

Travel.  My greatest love is Latin America, and I’ve spent a lot of my vacation time traveling throughout Central and South America.  I’ve taken two month-long cycling tours, through Patagonia and through Central America, from Cancún to Honduras and back.

My bicycle.  I love my bike both as a form of recreation and transportation.  I have not driven my car since March, 2007 and have instead traveled by bike and public transportation (well, and a few planes…).  I am more fit, happy and organized because of the change, and my workday ends when I get on the bike, not at the end of a frazzling, traffic-filled commute home.  The pace is slower on a bicycle; it allows me to enjoy the world around me as I travel through it.  It removes the barriers around me: I can greet people that I pass, observe the colors, sounds and scents of seasons as they change.

Food.  I love foods of all sorts, too many types and variations to list. I love to cook as well, especially fresh food from the garden, and of course desserts. I like trying odd foods too, from duck kidney to guinea pig to that infamous Chilean hot dog, the ‘completo.’

Music. Again, all sorts.  I like finding new music as I travel and love to play the piano. I started piano as an adult, and was thankful to find the best teacher ever 4 years back. I love Chopin.

Visual Arts. I’ve loved photography from the time my dad let me use his old, fully-manual, 35mm camera in high school. I am mostly digital, but can occasionally be found in my wet darkroom, usually processing and printing 120 film from my Holga. I paint a bit too, but don’t claim any skill at it.

Work. During the day, and sometimes during the weekends, I work in the television industry, specifically with the technology behind interactive television.  This is a bit ironic given that I don’t actually watch much television, but I have a good job that fuels my hobbies, and I hope that one day all of our work in the industry will make television more interesting and compelling!