Dave Ford Does Earth

Dave Ford Does Earth

A Lifelong Journey Around the World

Current Project: Snapshots of New York City

A few years back I set off to travel the world. The journey enabled me to swim with Amazonian pink dolphins, summit the highest peak on the African continent, and sail below the Antarctica circle. The 1 1/2 year trip netted me a worldwide troop of friends and stories out the ying-yang. Currently I live in New York City and have decided to write about the energetic madness that occurs here on a daily basis.

Trying to come to grips with a darker period

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This last week has been by far the toughest week of my travels.
> Two weeks ago in La Paz, I met a 20 year old girl English Girl who was in Bolivia to volunteer at an orphanage. I found out last week from my friends Leah and Jess that this girl went to the Al [...]

Ayahuasca in the Jungle- The Internal Journey Part 1

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I first heard about Ayahuasca a few years back. A very good friend of mine, Mike Schwartz (he is an actor living in LA), sent me an article about about a center in Brazil where you drink a concoction made by a Shaman and hallucinate. This vine grows only in the Amazon Basin and [...]

A Reality check in Sucre….. Opening the book a little further

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In the next few days I will write about the significance of this photo.
Over the course of the last few months of writing this blog I have had quite a bit of internal and external dialog about the contents and subject matter that I am writing about. I know how many people are reading, [...]

Rurrenbaque take 2: Its the end of the world as we know it….Or is it???

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Ben, Billy, and I on our Jungle Tour.
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For My second and final trip to Rurrenebaque, Bolivia I traveled with Aussies Ben Vears, Billy Barnetson, Jessica Ledger, Leah McCann, and a Danish girl named Siri.
We spent about a total of 10 days this time around and lived the good life. I took my second 3 day [...]

Man Tears in La Paz…. and Tshirts

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The Afro is really beginning to take shape.
Written Sunday May 6th- Could not post until today due to lack of Internet in the Jungle.
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Im sitting in my La Paz hotel room….Its 2:00am in the morning.
This is my last night in La Paz, and I think Im going to miss it. Even the stopping every 10 [...]