Lyn Fuchs's Blog, page 26

Road Babe Dispatch From Beirut Lebanon

These days, news about the Middle East is often dominated by the war in Syria, the fallout from last year’s Arab Spring, and the turmoil surrounding a YouTube video depicting the prophet Mohammed as both a tyrant and a homosexual.

In Beirut, we read all these stories, while having a cup of coffee in a trendy café or tanning under the warm autumn sun in one of Beirut’s beach clubs. For three months now, I have called this city my home, after moving here from Switzerland, where all news of war a...

White Men Can Dance With Stacey Dash

Brown sugar Stacey Dash rejects the slightly-brown government-sugar-daddy Obama for the other white meat Romney. She just announced on CNN that she endorses Quaker Mitt because she is following Martin Luther King's advice to judge these candidates by the content of their character not the color of their skin.

Who knew there were still Americans who don't give a damn about image or ethnicity? I thought I was the only one running around on the deck of the American Titanic more concerned with a s...

Twisted Vagabondage Tale From Manitoba Canada

W.O. Mitchell described prairie as the least common denominator of nature: land and sky. My life on the prairie sometimes seems to be the least common denominator of marriage: food production and food preparation. This is how it felt as a hired man and my man came in from the field for dinner.

As they finished washing up, I listened to their talk of crop and cattle and prepared the table. I laid everything in such a manner, yet did either of them notice? I wanted them near me, to smell th...

Spice Girl Caravan To Humayun Tomb

Humayun Tomb in DelhiOn our drive across India, we see structures ranging from exquisite artful palaces to meager cow dung huts. Local red sandstone and white marble are used to create Delhi's graceful Humayun Tomb (built by Emperor Shah Jahan of Taj Mahal fame), India's largest mosque the Jama Majid, and Jaipur's Amber Fort with its beautiful Ganesh Pol gateway leading to the emperor’s private quarters. Along the back roads we pass much less impressive buildings...

Spice Girl Caravan From Humayun Tomb

Humayun Tomb in DelhiOn our drive across India, we see structures ranging from exquisite artful palaces to meager cow dung huts. Local red sandstone and white marble are used to create Delhi's graceful Humayun Tomb (built by Emperor Shah Jahan of Taj Mahal fame), India's largest mosque: the Jama Majid, and Jaipur's Amber Fort with its beautiful Ganesh Pol gateway leading to the emperor’s private quarters. Along the back roads we pass much less impressive building...

Healing Through Hockey My Ass

CNN's never-ending attempt to Oprahfy the world has resulted in a feature called "Healing Through Hockey". That's just wrong. Hockey is the only arena left where primal animals can howl at bearded, toothless men hitting each other with sticks. Hockey isn't new-agey; it's stone-agey. So, by all means save the orphans and heal the wounded, but not with hockey, and not on my watch.

We guys love you ladies for all the beautiful softening touches you bring to life. We even appreciate the aesthetic...

Wandering Mystic Meditation From Sri Lanka

Sometimes, we reach out to help our loved ones when they are not yet ready or even much interested in being ‘saved’ by us.  Based on our own experiences, we assume that we know what is best for them, thus we persist in trying to aid them with their challenges. Are we genuinely intending what is best for them or are we insidiously controlling them using the labels of love, responsibility and caring to camouflage the reality? What about their innate freedom to decide what, when, who, why a...

Primal Wilderness Rambling From Gatineau Canada

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” ~ John Muir

My hometown is the capital of my country. Ottawa is a nice city to live in - as long as you ignore the politicians. It’s nestled on one bank of the Ottawa River, and the valley itself has always struck me as one of the beautiful places in Canada, full of character, areas to explore, and a lot of history, on both sides of the river, in two provinces.
Over on the Quebec side, past the streets and homes of our sister cit...

Spice Girl Caravan To Delhi India

Katie Foster at The Taj MahalAs a voracious traveler, I have numerous beautiful memories of extraordinary trips – a romantic sunset camel ride across the Wadi Rum in Jordan, a dreamy interlude at an idyllic inn by the village of Sirince near Ephesus Turkey, flying falcons and eagles in the desert of Ras Al Khaimah UAE, a harrowing transatlantic ship crossing from Lisbon Portugal to Miami USA, and a superb Corvette tour down Florida’s byways. Yet, I now have one that t...

World Record Holder Roz Savage Interview

Sacred Ground Travel Magazine is proud to present Lyn's exclusive interview with ocean rowing babe/legend Roz Savage.

Lyn: In 2010, you were named Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic. How would you feel about having the title "adventurer" on your business card? What does being an adventurer mean to you?
Roz: For me, the adventure has always been symbolic. Yes, my ocean adventures were very real, and very tough, but it was the personal and spiritual journey that was more meaningful to...