Welcome
to
Big Bend Dojo
In Search of
the Lost Mojo
An Exploration of Inner and Outer Spaces
What is this Place?
In 2025, I lost my precious wife, Martha, my soulmate, and it left a big hole in my world. In a way I died with her, and this project is my way of coming back to Life — telling stories, singing songs, exploring, and trying to find my higher vibrational light again. Out loud, in public, and imperfectly.
You're welcome to watch.
Big Bend Dojo is my own personal classroom or playground, my attempt to find my own Way or "Tao." The word "Dojo" comes from Japanese Buddhist tradition — a place for seekers of higher learning and self-mastery. The term "Mojo" originally derives from the African Kikongo word "Moyo" or Soul, It is the "life force," or "spiritual spark" in each of us. I want to find mine again.
I live in Alpine, but my home and my work as a tour guide and real estate
broker stretches across this whole wild region of the Trans-Pecos in Far West Texas. From El Paso, to Presidio and Ojinaga, to Marfa and Lajitas. Terlingua to the mountains of Fort Davis...it is its own exotic country and culture.
Come Tell Stevie about it in the Big Bend
Let's take a walk, take a drive, view some art, gaze at the stars or have some tea! I mostly guide interpretive driving tours and show property around the area, but I'm really good at just hanging out and talking about my travels, observations, interpretations..... and the meaning of it all! I want to hear yours too! I've found that when people feel safe enough to share their innermost selves....they'll tell you the darnedest things!! It's safe out here.
Meet Stevie the Guide
Before the Big Bend, there was the whole world. Stevie has been a research diver on the Great Barrier Reef, looked for oil in China & Southeast Asia, served as a wildlife guide in the Galapagos, and organized medical teams in the Andes and Amazon — collecting stories, maps, and a few good friends along the way. All had an impact on how he perceives the world and her people.
But Peru shattered his worldview forever. Five years of driving doctors and builders in the remote corners of this country past ancient stone structures called "Inca Ruins" made him question ALL of our stories in history, religion, archeology, and the potential of human consciousness.
Stevie Likes to Talk About DeepThings!
Two Books: Before Peru and After Peru
I wrote my first book, Secret Passages of Stevie the Guide, while I was working in South America. It traces the breadcrumb trail that led me from selfish world traveller to Baptist missionary work with orphans and doctors in Peru. I wrote it for a Christian audience, and I hoped to inspire others to go share the Love of Christ in whatever way they know how. I still hope they'll do that as it was very good for me and my family. It's available on Amazon.
But I can see now that I wrote it for approval as much as for truth.
In my second book, The Taboo Distillery of Stevie the Guide, I held nothing back. It's what I call my rebellion book!. It is unfinished, unedited and pretty much in your face. Sparked by a 4:30am conversation with a Buddhist monk on a cruise ship, it's an unfiltered look at faith, doubt, life experience and the messy work of finding my own way..
The third one about how Martha and I eventually ran away to the mountains of the Big Bend should be a doozy!
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