I g n i t e Y o u r I n n e r S p i r i t / 13
A dv e n t u r e r
C h r is P lo u g h “Curiosity is a seed of liberation, allow it to grow.” I want to help you know yourself and learn to trust your inner voice. We have multiple voices that consciously and unconsciously drive us. They can be confusing and some lead us away from ourselves. Your inner voice is your Intuition — listen to it and you will live your life well. It will guide you to places that you wouldn’t expect — yet exactly where you need to be.
Revelation in the Gobi Desert I am alone for the first time in 42 days. Lying on the floor in the back of Volga, a hulk of an ambulance spray painted in fluorescent rainbow colors. The engine has seized, and I’m stuck on the only paved road I’ve seen for weeks in this desolate landscape within the Gobi Desert of central Mongolia. My friends have left. Dan is gone. Steve is gone. For the first time since we began this adventure, almost six weeks ago, I am surrounded by my own silence. It is suffocating. I smell the scent of the desert after it rains. I’ve known it most of my life. It tickles a deep part of my brain. I’m brought back to a memory of standing in the New Mexico desert when I was a teenager. Just outside of my parent’s double-wide mobile home... “No. I’m not going there.” I sit up and scramble out the back door of the ambulance. The sun is moving high in the sky. I look down the long stretch of open, barren road — nothing. I peer around Volga in the other direction
