http://earthtoswift.com Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:43:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'm finding the saying "All you need is love" pretty spot on. Everything in my life right now seems to be going in every other direction then I planned other then my love life. India is proving to be one interesting place to live and "try" to start a business. ... http://earthtoswift.com/2010/01/28/all-you-need-is-love/ I'm not sure how you can possibly sum up a decade.... I'm having trouble trying to sum up this last year, let alone the last 10 years. I started the 2000's as a 21 year old boy fresh into the world without a passport and unaware of the world that surrounded ... http://earthtoswift.com/2010/01/03/looking-back/ Here are some pictures of my new house in Goa. I am in the process of building a bamboo hut on the roof that will act as my office and party place. I am finding that getting workers to actually work here in India is like pulling teeth! Hopefully this ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/12/16/work-in-progess/ I never thought living in India would become such an adventure and so rewarding! The last month has flown by leaving me thinking at this rate life is going to be over fast... but i wouldn't change this moment, this place or anything else for the world! A friend of mine comment ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/12/14/reality/ People think that living in Goa India is all beaches, sand and sun.... but there's a lot more to this place then you would think. Once you step a few feet off the beach you enter a whole new world. A place filled with pigs running around eating trash, cows eating ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/11/19/week-1-india/ Day 1 - 1:30pm After a few flight delays (a poor old man had a heart attack and died during the flight), I finally made it to Palolem Beach Goa! My plan was to make it here right before sunset, but unfortunately due to the delays I made it here about ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/11/14/return-to-paradiseyet-again/ I wrote this blog 4 days before I left Africa... so here goes. 10/29/09 Mali, Central Africa A week and half later we are finally in real Africa... or at least what you would think Africa would look like. We have left the deserts of northern Africa and its Muslim brothers behind ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/11/06/pushing-back/ The sight of dead dogs and cats on the side of the road is nothing new, but a dead camel... that's a first! Old tires litter the side of the road. I think about those tires and the stories they must hold about how they came to rest here in the ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/10/30/tia/ I feel like im stuck in the movie Ground Hog Day, where everyday is the same. The Sahara desert seems to go on forever! These sand duns, camel signs and dead patches of desert grass all look the same, the smell of stinky dried fish and even the police check points ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/10/28/get-me-out-of-this-desert/ It's been months since I have been able to get inside my head. The constant distractions and lack of free time "me time" have left me at odds with myself. I have neglected my best friend in the world... me! The vast African continent and its never ending dirt roads have ... http://earthtoswift.com/2009/10/26/back-to-basics/