Gap Year in the South West & Mexico

The second part of our time together is about traveling into new worlds as we make our way from the high mountains of Colorado to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico.  We learn and adventure in remote untouched nature and also in places full of trash, in Native american reservations and border towns, in National parks and dirt poor villages.  Along the way we will meet and learn from experts and total characters we meet on the street.  We will practice the art of creating community wherever we go--sometimes we pop up a kitchen in a park and feed people, invite them to a music circle or a game of frisbee.  We will find hidden special places, camping on a back BLM road or spontaneously changing our plan to visit somebody we just met.  The goal is to deeply connect with place and people, to dance and play, and to create transformative experiences and stories that change lives.  We won't shower much or do many traditional tourist things, but we will experience what is really happening out there.  This last year we sat with an illegal immigrant who was hiding from border patrol and got his story, we stayed with people who worked in border factories and struggled to find their next meal, we joined the Halloween party in Patagonia and ended up learning from a famous ethnobotonist.