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(Video) Lake Titicaca and An Ex Wife
You can’t always escape your past.
A few months ago I penned a look at visiting Lake Titicaca from the Bolivian side. It represented my first return to the lake since traveling to the fabled lake with my eventual ex-wife.
It was a disaster of a trip. One that should have never taken place, but for reasons (detailed in other stories) we went through with it.
It took well over a decade for me to return to the lake, but I wanted to take it in from the other side. With my wife we visited the Peruvian border. I thought maybe if I traveled to the lake via alternative routes I would have avoided the emotional connection of memory. But that didn’t work.
Maybe my desire to avoid the past was the very reason my thoughts lingered on it. But for one reason or another, thoughts of what my life once was traveled with me and what my current life is today.
I shared these thoughts in a previous post titled: Lake Titicaca, an Ex Wife, and the Impossible Desire to Forget. You can read the original article here.
For a current project, I read the story, and cut it to music, sound effects, and visual aids, to craft a multimodal presentation of the story. I’d love if you gave it a watch (or listen). Ha, and feel free to subscribe if you’d like.
