Allons-y!

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

A Votre Sante 30 x 22.5” Watercolor © John Hulsey

Among the many great pleasures of group travel is the feeling of combined purpose and camaraderie. It is all too rare to have these feelings nowadays—we all lead such busy and separate lives. We may have work associates or neighbors, acquaintances at school or people we know from public service of one kind or another, but rarely do we have the opportunity to join together with relative strangers bent on one pleasurable goal, to have a wonderful life experience in a new and inspiring environment.

We all seem to work harder than ever these days, and while we are pretty good at the little pleasures of life, we are not very adept at giving ourselves permission to enjoy the simple, but immensely satisfying art of living fearlessly in the moment. This experience is greatly facilitated by being far away from our home concerns, with nothing pressing on our schedules, surrounded by like-minded people, and with caring and…