We would like to share some poetry from our transference here in the high New Mexican desert. As a group, students came up with twenty adjectives to describe their experience of the course so far. They were: transformative humbling inspiring......Read More

The sun is setting over the snow-capped peaks of northern New Mexico and a dry wind is blowing across our campsite in the sagebrush. This is our last stop, last home of this journey. The last place we will set up our tents and our outdoor stove and......Read More

The itinerary of our semester follows a body of water — the Rio Grande — in all different forms. We first saw the river in orientation in El Paso, where we were surprised to discover that there, it is a dry, sandy river bed. We canoed......Read More

If you think you have enough socks, you don’t. Pack more. If there is such a thing as ‘the land of lost things’, it is full of my socks from this trip. Who knows where they went–perhaps abandoned at the laundromat, or left at a campsite,......Read More

A practicing Jew sits in an Evangelist church and cries violently because Jesus Christ was crucified. This scene is typical to the life of Hugo Moya – a Mexican pastor and quasi-grandfather to most of our group. Four short weeks after we met......Read More

We just got back from our 5 day, 26 mile long trek on the Continental Divide Trail in the Chihuahuan Desert, and are now at the KOA campground. I was the navigator on this trek, meaning I was almost always at the front with my very......Read More

For the past five days, our group has been trekking through the southern most point of the Continental Divide Trail, headed towards the Mexican border. After days of meticulous planning for our trek with food prep and a water caching system, we felt......Read More