Lyn Fuchs's Blog, page 19

Road Babe Dispatch From The Philippines

In two months, I'll make what could turn out to be the most excruciating decision of my life. I stand at the crossroads of staying or going. For a year, I've been looking forward to traveling and living abroad. Now, it’s time to leave and I'm having second thoughts. My feet seem to be glued down.

I'll be spending three or four years on a Ph.D. program in a nearby country. A few months ago, this would've been a no-brainer. I'd be rushing toward the place. My first application to study abroad wa...

Spice Girl Caravan From Delhi India

In 2010, I took advantage of my currently unemployed state to spend winter in India visiting my dear friend Ajit. Our friendship spans over three decades, back to when he graduated at the top of his class from an Ivy League MBA program. He snared a senior level job at a major corporation, which came with one perk: an executive secretary. Me.
I was a terrible secretary. Besides being a horrible typist, I was inept on the telephone (with no idea what buttons to push, thus causing angst to caller...

Primal Wilderness Rambling From The Deep

Looking for that unique SCUBA diving experience? As a SCUBA diving instructor, dive shop manager and lover of all things underwater, I'm often asked this question: where is the best diving?
In addition to being active in the world of professional diving, I'm also an avid recreational diver and committed traveler. Still, alas, I've not yet seen it all. For this reason, I've often sat, like many before me, in the presence of the all-knowing wonder that is the World Wide Web, searching for an ans...

Wandering Mystic Meditation From Normandy Beach

There may be no better example of the heroism marking the World War II generation than D-Day on June 6, 1944. This is when Allied forces from Britain, Canada, France, the U.S. and eight other nations stormed up Normandy beach. It was the beginning of the end for Nazi domination across Europe.
This crucial moment for the advancement of liberty is memorialized in the small American town of Bedford Virginia, which sacrificed many sons in the Normandy assault. Seeing this moving tribute to the tro...

Wandering Mystic Meditation From China

As China makes more and more headlines in western media, everyone knows that the world's biggest communist country is rapidly changing. Yet, to what degree has the Asian giant transformed? For those who have visited the country recently, there's not a simple answer to this seemingly simple question. China has altered more in the last thirty years than the last thirty centuries. Still, it's hard to give a rational account of those changes in a report of readable size. Be that as it may, I will...

Smooth Getaway Postcard From Switzerland

Despite Harry Lime (in Graham Greene’s The Third Man) asserting that Switzerland’s contribution to world culture is the cuckoo clock and chocolate, there's a long tradition of artistic achievement in this tiny country of six million people.

In fact, Switzerland is a country that so loves its artists that their profiles grace Swiss Francs, rather than the usual portraits of politicians. Switzerland owes much of its tourism to the Romantic poets, writers and artists. During the 18th and 19t...

Wandering Mystic Meditation From Luxor Egypt

I’m not a morning person. There's just something innately cruel about the sun rising as early as it does. Yet, I would skip out on sleep forever just to watch the sun rise over the sand in Luxor, Egypt. I can’t help but be blown away by the fuzzy pink disc pushing the night sky beyond and below the city limits. The glow of dawn peeks out between the silhouettes of mosques scattered across the barren landscape. I can hear the beautiful sounds of purring wind instruments floating on the breeze....

Let Britain Find Her Balls!

Not so long ago, the Middle East was an enlightened vanguard of global civilization, preserving classic literature and scientific works that Europeans used for fire kindling or toilet paper. My Celtic ancestors were barely walking upright. Yet, while Brits were none too fond of bathing (and much too fond of sheep), they could muster the sophistication to put on a relatively-clean metal shirt for a crusade on behalf of God and tribe. I believe such crusades are misguided. Spirituality should b...

Get a Free Classic Edition Book

The first edition of the critically-acclaimed Sacred Ground & Holy Water has been out of print for a couple years, but a few copies still exist. I'd like to give one of these to you.

While my new book Fresh Wind & Strange Fire comes out in July, it can be preordered right now right here. The first few people to read their copy and post an honest review on Amazon (no butter-up required) will then receive one of these classic editions free.

Additionally, a select group of hot female...

Road Babe Dispatch From South Africa

When South Africa is mentioned as a holiday destination, many people quickly relate it with theft, danger and corruption. Though I cannot deny these are serious factors, there are also many incredible activities to experience in this modern African country.

In 2005, when I was 15 years old backpacking across India, my initial positive impressions of South Africa were formed. I heard that it was the home of the highest bungee jump, penguins, great white shark diving, whales and wildlife safaris...