Below me the Rio Piedras followed its gentle course, carrying its crystalline water down to meet the sea. Behind me the verdant peaks of the world’s tallest coastal mountain, Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, stretched up to infinity. A wave of joy coursed through me, bringing the promise of an incredible day. 

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And then I was in my mid-30s and suddenly wanted a child. And I was scared that my life would be over then. My life as I liked it: Entrepreneur, traveling, being spontaneous, flexible schedule. And so much more.

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It has been 16 years since my mom passed away from cancer and I can still feel her absence so acutely in various moments of each day that it is as though time has not moved at all. As I navigate this journey without her I have clung to the threads of her memories real and imagined which I allow myself to sparingly indulge in. 

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“Ireland is my home ground yet the world is my playing field” has become my motto over the years. I enjoy watching Rugby but walking the trails and tracks of Ireland beats it every time.

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On Changing Career: I travelled the world for work as a professional polo player in my 20’s and it sparked a love for different cultures and travel. I saw first hand how polo was played in different areas of the world and how a shared experience could unite across language barriers.

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I looked down and didn’t recognize the number, so I ignored it. A few minutes later my phone was vibrating again, once again I ignored it. The third time the number popped on my phone, I excused myself from the meeting and swiped to answer the call. My life would never be the same. 

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When I arrived in the Dolomite Mountains 20+ years ago, I immediately knew I had found my new home. You could say that the Dolomites “transformed” me, but really they helped me realize a dream that had always run like a current through my veins. I wanted to travel and see the world.

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I had left for Paris heartbroken and a little lost, so I spent much of the train ride looking out the window at the world passing me by. As I watched the landscape change from countryside to cityscape. I contemplated who I wanted to be and tried to reconcile it with the woman who had escaped here to write and hide.  

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Perhaps the most fascinating aspect is the widely varying emotional experience. My first visit brought connection, serenity, and euphoria. The second brought fear and panic before eclipsing into near mystical meditation – ineffable, noetic, transient, and passive. Most recently, I felt calm and grounded.

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Because of our shared sleep deprivation, only about half of our group elected to go in search of the elephants on this morning. We quietly paddled into the inlet just behind a row of our floating cabins. As on all of our other mornings, we sat there enraptured, anticipation running high. 

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This was a five-day cycling journey with a group of 16 people, mostly strangers, ages 9-65, venturing together on bikes to explore our intrinsic value through gift culture.

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 I woke up with a bold idea—I needed to take a sabbatical to Africa. It didn’t feel like a decision to make, but one that had been made. I researched, planned and proposed it to my boss. He said yes.

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Travel is messy.  It messes with your emotions.  It messes with your opinions and preconceived ideas.  Hell it even messes with your body clock.  But as undeniably messy as it is, it is also the greatest teacher.  It teaches life lessons you could never learn in a classroom, online or even in a self-help book. 

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I’ve always considered myself a spiritual person, but never really appreciated how universally connected we all are in our hearts and souls until my first trip to India in 2010. It was one of those rare and wonderful once-in-a-lifetime journeys that taught me that travel can truly transform a life. I know, because this trip transformed my life. 

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It is the little things that make a big difference and create indelible memories we can recount forever.  Travel is the best education we can give our children and ourselves.

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Ten years ago when I was high in the Andes at over 13,000 feet in the small village of Umasbamba Peru,  I was inspired by a young man who had learned from a local NGO how to make efficient, smokeless ovens which heated the home an extra 20 degrees and provided warm water as well.

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