Well here I am, 3 years since my last post.
I have written a book in that time, and countless short posts especially in facebook conversations. But as far as the blog goes, it stalled. Why: travel was the first thing as at the end of 2012 after 3 months staying in LA, I embarked on a trip to Guatemala, Mexico & Belize to mark the end of the Mayan calendar. I wrote a book on this journey which I will give the link for in my next post. After that amazing experience of a month in the Mayan world, which is the name of my ebook, available at amazon.com, I decided to travel to the Caribbean as I had time before my booked flight from LA to Sydney. So after a few days in Miami in January 2013, I flew to Dominican Republic, staying there for a month, a week in Puerto Rico, then back to DR for one month. The rest of 2013 I worked as a substitute teacher in Sydney.
Beginning of 2014 I had a short visit to my home country and  a catch up & short journey around part of New Zealand with my Dad (Dad passed away in August 2014 so I will always be pleased we had that catch up). Then I went back to Dominican Republic & stayed for most of 2014. I had plans to travel to more of Central America & Colombia Ecuador Peru, but as my Spanish was still basic, I was content to keep DR as my base. During my stay, I bought an apartment in Sosua DR, which rented for a few months this year (2015) while I have been doing more casual teaching in Sydney Australia. On October 9 I returned to Dominican Republic and am now staying in my lovely apartment. The weather is still hot so I am eagerly awaiting some cooler weather, especially given that the great swimming pool in the complex here, is currently out of action.
This will do for today's post. I will write more tomorrow. This is primarily to just get the blog back in action :-) So I am back in action