Jon Jared

Travel was a way of life while living in Ecuador for over a decade. Everyday we met people from all over the world who were looking for new discoveries and authentic adventures. Each finding their own place in a vast culture that had roots that date back to the Inca and beyond.

On the other side of the coin, It’s not the easiest thing to explain the depth of experience I have in the travel space to someone that doesn’t have a reference point to give it the right measure.

In lieu of that point of departure, I’ve taken to comparing the 13 years I spent abroad to Shakespeare’s Lost Years of the same duration. To this day, scholars still guess as to where the bard was, and what he was up to, before rising to acclaim in the theater.

The coincidence that meets its mark is the theory that finds Shakespeare joining a traveling group of players in Italy. Learning by doing in a different culture, always moving, and never standing still for very long—touch on all of the right points.